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...McCracken was understandably bitter. In four black years at the Met, he had been all but buried beneath a mountain of spear-carrier costumes. "I was pretty disappointed." he says now, "but I was determined to come back singing the great parts." Last week McCracken came back, and in grander style than most spear carriers could dream of: he sang Otello in the premiere of a lavish new Met production...
...shrugged off the boycott is Tobacco Magnate Anthony Edward Rupert, 46. To stockholders in South Africa's Rembrandt Tobacco Corp., Rupert last week reported record profits of $4,500,000 for the business year ended last June. Abroad, Rupert's empire is flourishing on an even grander scale. Rembrandt included, his growing chain of tobacco companies, which now stretches from Ireland to Malaya, last year turned a pre-tax profit of $23.8 million on $560 million in sales. Though his business is barely 20 years old, Anthony Rupert today makes one out of every 50 cigarettes smoked...
...decision may not depend on technical issues such as farm prices, but on the outcome of Macmillan's talks with Charles de Gaulle this week. Despite his reluctance to admit a competitive Britain to Europe's cozy club, De Gaulle may finally be swayed by the grander vision of a united Europe whose power and prosperity can only be augmented by. British membership. In any event, said a British official last week, "the moment of truth will have to come soon...
Next day was a repeat performance, only on a far grander scale. This time the Race Committee decreed a triangular course with equal eight-mile legs. And in another afternoon of light breezes (5-8 knots), Mosbacher clearly had the better boat. On the first leg, Weatherly opened up a lead of more than six minutes, and Hood was only able to nibble at it the rest of the way. At the finish line, Weatherly was a crushing 4 min. 41 sec. ahead...
...another to give Americans the most outlandishly luxurious and wildly gimmicked night's rest in the history of the middle class. Today's motels bear about as much relation to the old tourist cabin as the Baths of Caracalla do to a penny arcade, and the grander names that now adorn them signal the newest look: Motor Inns, High Rise Motor Inns, Horizontal Hotels-almost anything but motels...