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Lerner's Parsifal. In adapting T. H. White's The Once and Future King the whole glorious frieze of Arthurian legend and the Middle Ages spread by a writer with the rarely combined gifts of levity, scholarship and poetry Lerner and Loewe have unquestionably taken on the greatest and heaviest theme that has ever been attempted in the field of musical comedy (Loewe tried to read the book, did not finish it). Treated seriously, the story could only be a musical tragedy, about a king who loses his wife to his best friend, loses his life under the sword...
...York City's five boroughs, the nation's heaviest concentration of population, in 1956 cast 3,200,000 votes-against 3,900,000 for the rest of the state. Thus the key figure is this: a Democrat must usually capture a 700,000-vote majority in the city to breast the upstate Republican tide. (Adlai Stevenson carried the city by a humiliatingly...
...year's second place team, which had only 14 points scored against it (by Dunster in the first game of the season), are returning. Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, a high school all-stater from Superior, Wis., the Elephants will have, in addition to a very adept backfield, the heaviest if not the toughest line in the league. At one of the tackle positions Eliot will play Bill King, a 290 pound tackle who played football for Marine teams while stationed in Quantico, Va., the past three years...
...stock market last week was buffeted by the heaviest losses in weeks. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 15.42 points, biggest break since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. The slide was accelerated by the fact that when the average eased through the previous 1960 low of 599.10, which had withstood two previous onslaughts, a storm of selling was touched off. At week's end the average was down to 585.20, lowest level in 19 months...
Russia's huge "flying zoo" was the heaviest object ever fired by man into space, more than twice the weight of Midas II, the biggest U.S. satellite. Aboard the bulky capsule as it spun around the earth in a near-perfect circular orbit were two dogs-named Strelka (Arrow...