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...countries touching the South China Sea. However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...
...apparent interest whatever in working his way from Broadway to the U.S.'s opera citadel, the Metropolitan. For one thing he had his fling at the Met before Broadway. His first opera, Amelia Goes to the Ball, composed when he was 25, was played for two seasons (seven performances) by the Met, and his third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings...
...citadel of Eastern-originated television was threatened last week by a routine Silver Theater show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
...most students Lehman Hall is a cash register citadel, the barred castle of the Bursar. It also houses one of the University's most used and least talked-about services--the headquarters of the University telephone system. Operators working below street level answer day and night whenever anyone dials KI 7-7600, and people do that at the rate...
...January Midwestern furniture displays had the new look. In mahogany-bound Grand Rapids, Mich., strongest citadel of period-piecing in the U.S., last week's displays by old-line manufacturers showed that over half of them had added handsome, well-designed modern to their quality period products. It was the same kind of story at Chicago's winter furniture exhibitions, showcases of a large part of the rest of the U.S. furniture industry...