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WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (5 LPs; London). Following close upon last year's triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time...
For all their surface similarities, the two men are markedly different. Kennedy is coldly pragmatic, Lindsay stubbornly principled. Where Kennedy has a sharper wit, the mayor has an easier humor. While Lindsay is taller and undeniably handsomer, Bobby has The Name. Though both wear an affluent air and came into...
In all, some 7,000,000 would-be passengers were grounded, delayed or forced to revise their plans. Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe. The only strikebound line that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move...
The characteristic irascibility of the overworked corps shows itself most clearly in its view of the armed forces' public information setup. Though some think it the best possible under the circumstances, the Reporter's Denis Warner, 48, a veteran of every Far Eastern fracas since World War II...
Marichal was fined $1,750 by National League President Warren Giles and suspended for eight days; Roseboro was not punished. Neither Juan nor the Giants ever regained their form: 19-9 before the fracas, Marichal ended the season with 22 wins, 13 losses. The Giants blew the pennant to the...