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Above all, she has preserved the remarkable instrument of her voice in all its original power and glory. While other singers' voices begin to fray, Tebaldi's only grows more refulgent with the years. "A career," says Tebaldi's friend Licia Albanese, "should be slow, taken quietly. Renata is a quiet person. And she takes the singing quiet. She is right. It must...
...Fresnel lost his job as an engineer with the French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many maritime uses...
Newly slenderized (from 215 to 191 Ibs.) for the fray, Michael Vincent Di Salle, 50, former mayor of Toledo and onetime price stabilization chief, is raring to do what he just missed doing in 1956: beat the Republicans' low-gear, low-key C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42. During an undistinguished first term, Billy O'Neill demonstrated nothing so much as a knack for ruffling the feathers of party roosters, e.g., by trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state...
...dual rate, fought it through many courts before he died in 1953. Since then, the company has carried on his battle under .the leadership of his son Jakob, 36, now company president. The Department of Agriculture, which ships huge quantities of surplus food, and the Justice Department joined the fray-but on Isbrandtsen's side...
...wife refused for months to speak to the wife of U Kyaw Nyein, Minister for National Economy. Kyaw Nyein's wife would have nothing to do with the wife of Thakin Kyaw Dun, Minister for Agriculture. Premier U Nu tried hard to take a Nehrunian position above the fray but was inevitably drawn into what he himself describes as the party's "family quarrels." He was also angry about the '"outrageous" lawlessness in the countryside, and last month called in the Army-not the police, which he said was too much under the politicians-to crack down...