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...might have guessed, very little was to become of it. The Trojans called for 20 principal singers, two choruses, ten different sets, hunters on horseback, ships moving out of a harbor, naiads swimming in "a natural basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse. With the creaky stage equipment of the 19th century, the giant workrivaling Wagner's marathons in sizecould not be performed in much less than seven hours. Berlioz himself heard it only in truncated form, and since his death it has never been given...
Wild Blue Pegasus. In San Antonio, Lackland Air Force Base trainees jumped at the chance to spend ten of the required 28 hours of calisthenics either on horseback or roller skating to organ music at an air-conditioned rink...
...back and forth across the country drawing together the findings. When the pieces of the Teamster puzzle began to fall into place, Kennedy returned to Washington, resumed a routine that was as strenuous as his field work. Rising at 6:45 a.m. at his McLean, Va. home, he went horseback riding with his wife Ethel (they have five children ranging from six months to five years) before going to the office, divided his day between hearings and office work, e.g., checking the 500 tips (one-third worthwhile) pouring in each day. Since they have a staff of servants at home...
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
...Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds, "in a close-knit affection which the later scattering of the family has never weakened...