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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sills came to the Met secure in her stardom. For Diaz's career, the principal male role in Siege means something completely different. Ten years younger than Sills, he has been at the Met for 12 and yet his greatest role to date--that of Count Cenci in Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci--didn't take place at the Met: Beatrix Cenci opened the Kennedy Center in 1972 and ran for two years at the New York City Opera. The role of Maometto, which he sang at La Scala with Sills in 1969 for his own debut there, is another crucial...
Officials at the U.S. embassy have literally been overwhelmed by the number of applications. "How many?" pondered a weary consular officer. "Don't ask. I haven't had time to count them." Many Americans in Saigon are marrying their girl friends so that the Vietnamese girls will qualify for the preferential treatment accorded spouses of American citizens...
...himself and then pinned a bum rap on Connally. Jacobsen did that, said Williams, "to extricate himself from his troubles" after he had been indicted in an unrelated savings and loan scandal. Indeed, prosecutors dropped seven fraud charges against Jacobsen after he agreed to plead guilty to one count of offering gratuities and said that he would testify against Connally. Earlier, Jacobsen had testified six times to four other investigative bodies that Connally had not taken money from...
...Jacobsen said that he got $10,000 in $100 bills from Bob Lilly, lobbyist for the Associated Milk Producers, and gave half of it to Connally on May 14, 1971, in his office at the Treasury. Connally took the money to his private bathroom, added Jacobsen, presumably to count and hide it, and then said, "Thank you very much." Jacobsen contended that he gave Connally a second $5,000 on Sept. 24,1971, also at the Treasury. (Another witness, one of Connally's former secretaries, verified logs showing that the two men had indeed...
...arcane and specialized corner of Wall Street, the bond market is usually a place where corporations can count on raising enormous sums of money -$12 billion in just the first three months of this year-with little fuss. But recently the market has been anything but placid. Prices have been dropping so fast, interest rates rising so rapidly and bonds going unsold in such numbers that some veteran traders say that the market is "in disarray...