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...accompaniment of four pages of color photographs, Associate Editor William Bender this week discusses a unique, and one of the oldest musical forms in the world, the exotic Peking Opera of Taiwan. The opera company's productions are a far cry from the works of George Gershwin, which Bender described in a page-long story in last week's issue. But such shifts in musical forms are routine for Bender who, as music editor since 1968, has written TIME cover stories on subjects ranging from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to Soprano Beverly Sills to Singer-Composer...
...month in Honolulu, the troupe played Los Angeles and San Francisco last week, and by November will have reached Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Vancouver. If the tour ends as well as it started, it will be a major step toward American acceptance of one of the oldest, most rarefied operatic traditions in the world...
With a flourish of the pomp and ceremony that his single-class country paradoxically enjoys, curly-haired Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was formally installed last week as King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. At 27, the handsome bachelor is Europe's youngest monarch; he succeeds the oldest, his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf, who had died four days earlier...
There are many women on the line at the Hamtramck plant--the oldest of Chrysler's Detroit area facilities--and three currently hold the position of foreman. The UAW contract with the company does forbid women from lifting heavy items, which severely limits the number of jobs they can have. So most of the women who work on the line are in the trim shop, paint shop, or final shop...
...many archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land, one recent find bears special contemporary relevance. A team of American archaeologists, digging near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day Iraq, have just completed piecing together the papyrus fragments of several long-buried scrolls. Heralded as the oldest known samples of the written word, the scrolls are said to contain the transcribed record of an ancient tribunal formally entitled the "Celestial Select Committee Investigating the Fall...