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...Rizzo, chairman of the Energy Commission team, yesterday that the group is close "a possible sequence of " for the July 5 blast. It is now that the explosion originated in the immediate area of the bubble chamber or in one of systems nearby that inflammable gas, he said. early-morning explosion at the , which is operated jointly Harvard and M.I.T., injured 7 and killed a 19-year-old technology At the time of the blast, the chamber was in the final stages of a program for cooling it and filling it with liquid hydrogen that was being tried...
Other works on the program include Omnes Gentes by Jacob Handl; Psalm 84, by Heinrich Schutz; and two motets, Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, by J.C. Bach, and Warum ist Das Licht Gegeben, by Brahms. The small chamber chorus will offer four settings of the Ave Maria by Joaquin des Pres, Schutz, Verdi, and Stravinsky, in addition to the Trois Chansons by Debuzsy...
Next, Johnson went to the President's Room of the Capitol, a small but ornate room with a large gilt chandelier near the Senate chamber. It was in that room, 104 years before to the very day, that President Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves forced into the service of the Confederacy (the famed Emancipation Proclamation came 17 months later). To sign the voting rights bill, President Johnson used 50 pens, squiggling a tiny portion of his signature with each. He handed the first pen to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the second to Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen...
Papandreou himself appeared in Parliament exactly once: to shout a triumphant ohi (no) when his name was called in the roll on the vote of confidence, then stalk out dramatically, leaving the chamber behind in cacaphonic chaos. To win his majority, since 24 Center Union Deputies backed Novas, Papandreou needed, and got, the support of 22 EDA (proCommunist) deputies, to add to the 145 votes of Center Unionists who had remained loyally behind their stubborn old leader. Young King Constantine was on the spot, and he had no choice but to talk things over with Papandreou next day. After...
Among themselves, singers are naturally divided. Soprano Birgit Nilsson has referred to a tenor partner as "having a resonance chamber where his brain used to be." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Teresa Stratas takes a feminine view: "Stupidity, no. Egomania, yes. Tenors seem stupid because they are so fully absorbed in themselves. Sopranos -they all have to be pretty smart cookies to have gotten where they are." Tenor Richard Tucker, in a cheerily frivolous reaction that goes far to refute the thesis, comments: "Since tenors usually carry their fat elsewhere, you can be sure they are not fatheads. And besides, the mere...