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...LOST COLONY (Manteo, N.C.) set the standard for open-air pageantry in 1937, and is still running. Playwright Paul Green retells the story of the small group of settlers on Roanoke Island who dis appeared from history in 1587. The play delivers the infant Virginia Dare, also delivers some tentative speculation on what happened to the settlers: forced to choose between surrender to a Spanish warship and taking their chances elsewhere in the unknown country, they elect the footpath in the wilderness that will lead to freedom, or death...
...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...entire industry." Coals & Cricket. By the time Cresap appeared, the subcommittee was already digging into the possibility that there had been price fixing not only in heavy equipment, the only field covered in the Government's original conspiracy charges, but in electric motors as well. The new dis closures came from William F. Oswalt, who headed General Electric's motor and generator department until he was forced to resign in March. Oswalt testified that on two occasions he discussed prices with competitors at meetings designed "primarily to establish motor reratings," added that at other times he had discussed...
...catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City Center ballet with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson as her es cort. After the performance, Jackie went backstage to thank the company, heard one member exult: "She has made our season." Days were devoted to fashion fittings in her suite, with the dresses dis patched through the lobby under canvas by her couturier, Oleg Cassini. Also under wraps: a massive Mr. John hatbox that surely contained Jackie's Easter bonnet. At odd moments during the week, she inspected the art galleries and curio shops that abound about her Madison Avenue hotel...
...princess must her three Sphinx-like rid win her hand. If they fail, awaits them. So far, twenty have died. Prince Calef, serts his exiled father Timur Turandot's questions, is in answering them. How princess still refuses him. roposes that if she find out before dawn she can dis him as she sees fit. Liu, the vant of Timur who has re faithful to him, claims that knows Calaf's name and suicide rather than reveal before her death, Liu tells Turandot that she has died for Calaf because she loves him. Turandot, moved by Liu's simple, honest...