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Inevitably, the wreckers are wrenching a few heartstrings. Frantic efforts to save the venerable, 83-year-old opera house ended in failure last week as the Old Met Opera House Corp., whose trustees included Soprano Licia Albanese and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, admitted "with a heavy heart" that it was unable to raise the $8 million to $12 million needed to save the building. Commented the New York Times: "It is live opera that opera lovers support, not dead houses...
...Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by one Jacob Nufer, an accomplished Dutch sow-gelder, who used a razor for surgery on his wife. She not only survived, but went on to bear him six more chil dren, all by normal births...
...Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., where Ted Shawn's dance festival features a cross section of ballet, modern and ethnic dance in a barnlike theater. Twelve new works will be seen...
Athletics is one thing New York's two Senators don't have in common. So when their staffs met on the softball diamond, Jacob Javits' crowd deferentially called themselves "The Old Men," and Bobby Kennedy's crew were dubbed "The Kennedy Kids." Neither of the distinguished colleagues started. But in the second inning, Javits, 62, stepped in for a swing while Bobby, 40, hooted pleasantly from the sidelines. The Senior Senator cracked a clean single-uh, clean, if you don't count some fumble fingering in centerfield. Daughter Joy Javits, 17, who was a ringer...
After July 23, the group will spend five days in Washington, probably speaking with Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Undersecretary of Latin American Affairs and Senators Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Edward M. Kennedy '54. On August 3 they will begin a few days' visit to the U.N. and various museums in New York before their return flight to Brazil...