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...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...
...nationalist-minded Latin America, foreign oil companies rarely get a chance at new concessions these days on any terms. But in Peru, "nationalist-but-realist" President Manuel Odria now offers new concessions to foreign companies on the handsome basis of a 50-50 profit split with the government. Last week, less than a month after it began to accept bids under the new oil law (TIME, March 24), Odria's Oil Bureau was swamped with some 300 claims by 15 foreign and domestic oil firms for more than 9,000,000 acres of concessions. Said Oil Bureau Director Fernando...
Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
Anniversary. In Veracruz, Mexico, Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, who claims that he is 103, and Ursula Mendez, 82, parents of two daughters, 58 and 56, celebrated their 62nd year together by getting married...
Last week Magma struck it rich-not on the San Pedro but in the bureaus of Washington. To develop its San Manuel property, it got a $94 million RFC loan, the biggest ever made to a private company. With the money, Magma plans to build a town for 7,000, a concentrator, smelter and other installations. But there is one catch. Not till Magma raises $17 million for the mine from private sources will the RFC turn over its money. President McNab is still not sure where the $17 million will come from. But since the Government is willing...