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...others are in Nigeria, Tanganyika, Chile, Colombia, St. Lucia, and the Philippines...
Tracked down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...called Heifer Project Inc. (which since 1944 has shipped more than 800,000 farm animals and chicks to 60 countries), Iowa State's farm-wise corpsmen will spend a month boning up for a tour of improving soil and livestock production on the West Indian island of Santa Lucia. One of Iowa State's volunteers is Madge Shipp, a Negro schoolteacher from Detroit whose age, 55, almost matches Penn State's Kennedys. She quit her $6,600-a-year teaching job because "I feel that people in the highly developed countries have lost their sense of purpose...
With the legislative situation well in hand, plans for more actual Peace Corps projects are in the works. Six have already been announced--to Tanganyika, Colombia, the Philippines, St. Lucia, Chile, and Ghana. The Ghana and Philippine projects call mainly for teachers; St. Lucia, Chile, and Colombia for agricultural experts and community developers; and Tanganyika for highly-skilled surveyors and geologists. Three of the projects--St. Lucia with Heifer, Inc., Chile with the Indiana Conference for higher education, and Colombia with CARE--will be run jointly by private organizations and the government. The Corpsmen bound for Colombia, Tanganyika, and Ghama...
...other extreme. There the Queen accepted a bouquet from young dancers, joined Prince Philip and eight companions in the majestic isolation of the royal box, surrounded by 3,230 empty seats, as 200 singers and musicians staged a special, twelve-minute performance of the second-act finale of Lucia di Lammermoor...