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...Lucia, a dreamy little Caribbean isle where only 14 volunteers are stationed, the local paper paid the Peace Corps its highest compliment. Said the Voice of St. Lucia: "When the Peace Corps first landed in St. Lucia, there was skepticism behind the welcoming speeches. 'Here they come,' said one socially prominent St. Lucian woman, 'straight from school to people who manage very nicely earning nothing-to teach them about refrigeration and The Star-Spangled Banner.' But today, America's Peace Corpsmen in St. Lucia have assimilated themselves into the St. Lucian society with an enthusiasm...
Born. To Jerome Hines, 41, Metropolitan Opera basso who last year became the first native American to sing Boris Godunov in Russia, won a standing ovation; and Lucia Evangelista Hines, 39, Italian-born soprano: a fourth son, fourth child; in Newark...
...planned this spring to allow young Negroes to talk on a more informal basis with undergraduate volunteers. "There is a great deal of mutual misunderstanding--and of bitterness on the part of some Negro high school students--that can only be explored in confrontations of this kind," explained Lucia Clapf, Boston representative to the Northern Student Movement, who was present at a similar meeting in Harlem...
Untamed & Drenched. The first Californians. the Spanish, called it El Sur Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...
Some 20,000 people turned out to hear her, as she performed the role that has made her famous-the Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The attendance made Soprano Sutherland one of the most popular female performers ever to appear at the Stadium (one who topped her: Marian Anderson, who drew 23,000 in 1940). Sutherland's crowd was a notch above last year's high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind...