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...Huntington. The S.P. bitterly insisted on a harbor to be located at Santa Monica, where, providentially, S.P. owned the only access route; the Times pounded its fist for a site to the south, free of S.P. domination, at the coastal inlet of San Pedro. With the eager Santa Fe railroad in his corner, Otis won his impassioned fight, watched with satisfaction when the dredges moved into San Pedro and turned a few acres of mud flats into one of the busiest harbors in the world. The city of Los Angeles then annexed a 20-mile-long shoestring of land...
...traffic on the big, four-lane Santa Fe-Taos highway was fin to fender one evening last week. Five miles outside Santa Fe the line of cars turned off the highway, crept to the top of one of the low-lying foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and disgorged a crowd of dinner-jacketed men and bare-shouldered women. In the open theater on the far side of the hill, the lights were about to go up on the Southwest's first full season of resident, repertory-company opera...
...curtain raiser, the brand-new Santa Fe Opera Association had selected a surefire heart-throbber-Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The 32-piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts...
...stations were trading tirades over the papers' longtime policy of charging broadcasters advertising space rates for running program listings. When Albuquerque radio and TV stations KOB and KGGM said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested...
WITTER BYNNER Santa Fe", N.Mex...