Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Masters on the Heights. Israeli military planners had reckoned that if their forces won the high ground on the first day, the rest of the campaign would be easy. It was. The next morning the Golani infantrymen met only token resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense...
Last week the Met concluded a ten-day Verdi stand in Newport, R.I., that combined familiar pieces with a smorgasbord of the unfamiliar representing musicological digging at its frenzied best. The top events were a series of open-air concert performances of Verdi operas, ranging from the well-loved La Traviata and // Trovatore to the ripsnorting, deliriously difficult / Vespri Siciliani. The singing was predictably proficient, the Festival Field amplification acceptable and the attendance fair...
...would have particularly welcomed the news from Rome died in New York City last week. Victim of a heart attack was the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 62, the Jesuit theologian whose influence and immense prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of his faith and order. Secular leaders met under his guidance. Protestants welcomed him to their councils; the Episcopal Committee on Theological Freedom and Social Responsibilities listed him as one of its advisers. Internation al Catholicism recognized his intellectual leadership at the Second Vatican Council, despite efforts of the ultra-conservative Vatican Curia to suppress his liberal views on religious...
Married. Betty Furness, 51, former TV girl at the refrigerator door, now L.BJ.'s adviser on consumer affairs; and Leslie Midgley, 52, CBS-TV news producer, whom she met in 1965 at a party at Walter Cronkite's; she for the third time, he for the second; in a commercial-length (120 sec.) civil ceremony attended by her daughter and his three children; in Manhattan...
...patient cannot be on his own after three years at Wellmet, the group tries to make other arrangements for him in a family care home, the city infirmary, or a place for disabled people. A recent resident, a 15-year-old girl, had to be sent back to Met State when the house could not keep up with her constant demands for attention which culminated in a pretense of taking an overdose of pills. But the group hopes to be able to accept her again in the fall...