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Amahl, a crippled boy, and his mother live in a rude hut. The three kings, traveling toward Bethlehem, ask lodging for the night. The desperately needy mother tries to steal some of their gold as they sleep, and is caught redhanded. As he did in The Consul, Menotti then makes his story point with dramatic directness. Sings King Melchior (Baritone David Aiken...
Double Indictment. Six times in the ensuing six years, the State Department's own Loyalty Security Board debated whether these meetings made Service guilty of disloyalty to the U.S. Six times Service was cleared. (For the sixth hearing, he was recalled while en route to be U.S. consul general in Calcutta.) Last week the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board, the capital's top loyalty panel, reversed the finding, decided there was a "reasonable doubt" of Service's loyalty, and recommended that he be fired...
...Britishers, William Rees-Mogg and Richard Taverne, won a unanimous decision from Steven R. Petschek '53 and Jay R. Nussbaum '52, before a crowd of 300 in Paine Music Hall. The judges were L. C. S. Barber, British Consul in Boston, Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe and professor of History, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor...
...stranger to travel, Macrae was born in 1923 in East Prussia, where his father was a vice consul, spent his first eight years in Königsberg, Dunkirk and Porto Alegre, Brazil. After returning to England to go to boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...moaned an overemotional Siamese consul in Singapore last week, "what will happen to our King now?" The answer to this rhetorical question-in a land which most Americans are apt to regard as a musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, her political history has been punctuated by eight coups d'etat, none of which had any profound effect on the powerless ruling House of Chakkri. Last week, young hepcat King Phumiphon Adundet,* his pretty Queen Sirikit and their eight-month-old daughter Princess Lotus Precious Stone arrived home from...