Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who scored a triumph the following night as the most convincing and moving Tosca of her time). Otello was merely excellent-and significant precisely because it was the kind of topnotch production that Rudolf Bing's Met can mount any night of the week it has a mind...
...scored his double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest...
...deadweight tons, or 11%, to 49.6 million tons overall. But free-world oil production-and thus the need for tankers-will increase by 4% or less this year. Result: nearly 3,000,000 tons (6%) of the world's tanker fleet lie idle, and the total may mount to 4,000,000 tons by midsummer...
...Visit to Mount Olympus. Why has Getty stayed away from the U.S. for almost seven years? His critics insist it is to avoid either taxes (Getty pays full U.S. taxes on his personal income of more than $1,000,000) or lawsuits by his ex-wives. But Getty is on friendly terms with them, takes care of them financially. They speak well of him, and wife No. 4, who gets $1,000 a month, is writing the story of his life. Getty has his own explanation: "There are plenty of capable people in my companies who know the Stateside...
...president of Tidewater, recently flew to Paris to see his father, with whom he has spent only six weeks since the first year of his life. He was understandably anxious. Said he: "Mr. Getty is the smartest businessman I know. Coming to see him is like a visit to Mount Olympus." Getty's youngest son, Timothy Christopher, 12, who is recovering from a series of eye operations, lives at the Pierre with his mother, Louise Lynch Getty; Getty talks with him by telephone, but has not seen him for a year and a half. Son Jean Ronald Getty...