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...companies faced off across Lincoln Center Plaza with year-old productions: the Metropolitan with its comfy,old-fashioned Traviata and the New York City Opera with Beni Montresor's fairy-tale setting of The Magic Flute. In neither case was the performance on much more than a ho-hum level; in fact, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe's first Met Violetta seemed an almost deliberate throwback to the bad old days when singers were meant to be heard but not seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Transcontinental Bang | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Chalmers, who is known as a proponent of more lenient parietal regulations, has also been the primary supporter of the concept of House education. He has encouraged Winthrop House tutors to set up two General Education Courses, SocSci 9 and Hum 10, and he himself teaches a seminar on energy, Nat Sci 1. which will not be offered this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalmers to Take Semester Off To Study in British Laboratories | 9/26/1967 | See Source »

...Tell me has the American Bar Association yet bestirred itself to say "ho-hum" or anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

Manhattan's sidewalk spectators are getting to be fairly ho-hum about movies shot on location, but this one was a real buzzer. Star of the film was Mia Farrow, 22, whose mob quotient has gone up considerably since she married Whosis, and furthermore didn't she seem to be-giggle blush-just a teensy bit preggers? Yes she did, and in no mood to dillydally about it, either. One day she was barely bulgy, the next she seemed six months along, and within a week she was 14 months pregnant. By this time even the most motherly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...machines that make the modern farm hum range from manure spreaders that cost $600 to 13-ton tractors selling for $36,000. Three-fourths of all farms now have at least one tractor, and some have a dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Toward the Square Tomato | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

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