Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's match against Princeton tomorrow will pit it against the fourth rated squad among the nation's colleges. The Tigers include Gil Bogley, former junior champion, and Charlie Devoe, who holds a national ranking...
...which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...comparatively compact City Center Theater, Stage Director José Ruben, veteran of both opera and Broadway (and once Sarah Bernhardt's leading man), made Manon move through all its five acts with proper sentiment and subtlety. In the pit, French Conductor Jean Morel kept the pace clean and precise. And the singing, French diction included, of City Opera's young Americans could hardly have been better...
...into its mooring at Sparrows Point, Md. last week, the red carpet was rolled out by Bethlehem Steel Corp executives. The ship carried the first load of Venezuelan iron ore (22,000 tons) ever to be brought to the U.S. The ore came from Beth Steel's open pit mine in the state of Bolivar. Bethlehem eventually expects to get 3,000,000 tons a year for its big Sparrows Point steel mill in return for the ten years of work and $50 million poured into the Venezuelan project. It has built a highway, a railway (the only standard...
...filled with its biggest Wagner crowd yet. Some nibbled a "Parsifal" Supper ($1 buffet) in the university dining hall; others brought their own in boxes. Then, in the university auditorium (3,788 seats), they sat back while the first sounds from the 60-piece orchestra drifted up from the pit. Onstage, they saw simple and well-lighted sets, fresh and unstilted acting...