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...where "happiness awaits us yonder." Most productions follow the original Paris staging, in which the fishing village became as elaborate as a movie set, and the fishermen went about like oriental chieftains in turbans and silk robes. In last week's production, Chinese-born Set Designer Ming Cho Lee wisely changed all that-and made the opera far more credible. His sets, strewn with fishermen's huts, were starkly simple, and his costumes were equally plain...
...felt cramped on its 115-acre Cambridge campus. Something had to give, and what gave was M.I.T.'s low-lying skyline. The next addition to the campus, to be ready by 1962, will be the 20-story, $5,000,000 Earth Sciences* Center, designed by Alumnus Ieoh Ming...
...Angeles, Laundromat Proprietor Sui Ming Leung, 52, was fined $500 after he admitted trying to steal $1,500 worth of heirloom jewelry that a customer of his was washing in one of the machines...
Died. Soumay Tcheng, 65, petite, irrepressible Chinese patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure...
STORIES FROM A MING COLLECTION (205 pp.)-Translated by Cyril Birch-Indiana University...