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...last week the New Deal's dream valley (est. pop. 4,000), brimming with prosperity, was Alaska's biggest farming region. In the 23 years of colonization, Matanuska's feeble 1,000 acres has grown to about 13,000 acres of cropland worth some $6,000,000, accounts for 55% of Alaska's salable agriculture (1957 share: $1,854,000 in dairying, potatoes, berries, green vegetables). For a total outlay of about $5,400,000, the Matanuska experiment, says Anchorage Times Publisher Bob Atwood, is "one of the best investments Uncle Sam ever made...
...minute work for six vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord...
...est au fond d'un regard que Von decouvre une ame," insisted the soulful pitchman for a mascara pencil...
Tuesday, the Navy radioed the Seawolf some questions. Cmdr. Richard B. Laning, the skipper, replied: At 10:45 a.m., EST, the Seawolf had been submerged continuously, "without any contact with the earth's atmosphere, for 54 days...
...sellout crowd of about 47,300 is assured for the first game of this intriguing rematch of last October's frenzied series. The rest of the nation can listen or watch on network NBC television, which pays $3,000,000 for the privilege. The game starts at 2 p.m. EST...