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Gian-Carlo Menotti had good reason for counting every patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing...
...wave of applause was rolling slowly up the hillside with Kee Young Ham. Compact, muscular, dead-pan, he ran easily in his white trunks and jersey, staring in front of him, apparently ignoring the shouted messages from the sedan. He was gone as quickly and unobtrusively as he had come. The boys with the water followed, and craning our necks we could see the Korean dousing his head. After he had passed, everything was exactly as it had been a moment before, and it seemed much too long before the second runner, Yun Chil Choi, slipped by in another formal...
...drinks 21 cups of coffee a day, all made in a Cory coffeemaker. One afternoon last week, Jim Alsdorf bubbled with excitement as he showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...
...staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task force told off to organize and publicize the Navy's case...
...last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties. Sun is now busy re-establishing their units under generals of his own choosing...