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...Seattle Symphony used to have about as much job security as French Premiers. In its 51 years the orchestra has had 13 "permanent" conductors, and few of them managed to last more than a season or two. Seattle's worst moment came in 1951, when French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal was forbidden re-entry to the U.S. for a Gallic breach of morals (the official reason was perjury concerning his marital status when he returned; the lady who traveled with him was not his wife). After the symphony's officials stopped blushing, they decided not to hire anyone...
Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...
Winner was durable World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who managed to remember protocol, staggered from his Mercedes to the microphone and dedicated his victory to President Perón. "Here is the best present I will ever make you," said the President as he handed the drooping driver a Coca-Cola...
Peru's President Manuel Odría, infuriated, shook up his armed forces. Planes and patrol vessels captured four catchers after machine-gunning two of them, and other aircraft forced the fleet's 13,000-ton factory-ship into a Peruvian port after dropping two bombs close aboard. The staggering fine followed...
...Manuel Gálvez' abrupt departure for the Panama Canal Zone "for medical treatment" thrust Lozano into the presidency, just in time to meet a major political crisis out of which he emerged as boss...