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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that will be remembered for years as the fulfillment of the opera's own description of its heroine: "Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within five days, in addition to Joan Sutherland's remarkable New York debut (see New & Excellent) it is plain that an exciting new generation of singers has taken hold-a generation that may reduce some of opera's grandest old names to mere echoes in the memory...
...accord was Martin, and that same year he took over as chairman, with the task of making "bills preferably" stick. Since the Eisenhower Administration viewed the Fed as the primary means of reining inflation, he had little trouble. But early in the campaign Kennedy made plain that he thought the Fed had swung from its earlier valet role too far toward an independent, negative role in monetary control. He wanted more Fed-Treasury cooperation, especially as he viewed the Fed as only one means of controlling credit...
...find is the skull of an 11-year-old child believed to be the oldest member of the human race distinguishable from mud. The child is thought to be well over 600,000 years old, which means that he is, in plain fact, older than Nutcracker Man. Now the significance of the child is this: the distance between him and Nutcracker Man (a matter of brain capacity and degree of specialization, not to mention N.M.'s astounding molars) is clinching empirical proof that the human species has advanced steadily and with a fair degree of haste from an 11-year...
...Your article on Marilyn Monroe," read the letter to Columnist Al Ricketts of the Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, "was just plain lousy, unfair, unjust, un-100% red-blooded American, and nuts to you." The reader's gorge had risen over an unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress in Ricketts' column "On the Town": "There are gals in Hollywood who have more sex appeal in their eyelashes than Marilyn can cram into a gownless evening strap. They can also deliver dialogue without sounding like their mouths are full of Purina...
...time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw the enemy lines - and enemy fire. "Rebel sharpshooters...