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Tate (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new West ern series with a Robin Hoodish hero...
...established a "little symphony" to play rare music - both ancient and mod ern - extended the symphony's subscription series from 8 to 22 concerts, tripled both the budget and the total season at tendance. The Seattle Symphony now includes 85 musicians, nearly a third of them women; the majority have to hold other, daytime jobs (aircraft engineer, longshoreman, school bus driver) to supplement their $2,000 pay; many teach music. Above all, Katims introduced 75 works never before played in Seattle, e.g., Orff's Carmina Burana, Mahler's monumental Resurrection Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar...
Using Minnesota's bursting-with-health D.F.L. as their power base. Humphrey planners hope to throw out presidential lines into nearly all Midwestern and West ern states. A crucial part of their plans: an attempt to persuade Michigan's Wil liams not to lock horns with Humphrey, thereby leaving Hubert a clear liberal field. A limiting factor in Humphrey's strategy: he is up for Senate re-election in 1960. therefore will probably not be able to enter and campaign in presiden tial primaries...
...time by Russia) into their fourth night emergency session in a row, the U.N. Security Council refused to consider the plan. Even rejected, however, the Soviet move added to the danger. Only a few hours later, the Egyptians were inviting "volunteers," and Radio Moscow carried the call. Unless West ern powers hastily rejoined ranks and brought Egyptian fighting to a quick end, they were confronted with the menace of armed Russian intrusion into the Middle East. Out of this awareness came this week's cease-fire agreement...
...down, the West would have to find new sources of oil and tankers to move it. The Western Hemi sphere could step up production an estimated 1,300,000 bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least...