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...House and Senate authorized the U.S. to be a co-founder (with 16 other free world nations) of the International Development Association, which will make longterm, low-interest loans to underdeveloped countries. Approved was a U.S. contribution of $320 million toward IDA's eventual $1 billion loan fund...
Died. Dr. Ida S. Scudder, 90, third-generation American medical missionary of the Reformed Church in America, who dedicated her life to the fight against plague, cholera and leprosy, and who in 1918 started in Vellore, India what is today one of Asia's foremost clinic-medical schools, with current support coming from more than 40 missions;* of a circulatory ailment; in Kodaikanal, India...
...young tenor appearing as Radames in Verdi's A'ida had sung "magnificently," said the Manchester Guardian; his voice had "sweetness, heroic size and natural musicality." That review, and others like it, gave the tenor pause: "I decided I had better go somewhere and learn to sing...
...semi-pro football. But all the time he yearned to "go legit" as a singer, briefly studied voice in New York. An agent advised him to get live dramatic experience, and he took off for England, where Covent Garden promptly offered the role of Radames in A'ida after a single audition. Since then, in London and Amsterdam, he has never sung anything but lead roles, already has offers from Vienna, Hamburg, Tel Aviv. Worries Del Ferro: "A tenor can be ruined vocally and psychologically by going too fast...
...Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott. Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel). Although Hoffa professes to be an all-out civil rights integrationist, he urged support for Ar kansas Supreme Court Justice Jim John son ("a professional segregationist, but pro-labor") against...