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...gift for vocal writing, Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon...
...Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from the poorest families in the village. With compound interest, by the time a girl of 26 has found her man, the value of each book will have grown to some $400, or enough to buy a few fertile acres...
...coffee crop is the poorest on record, down an estimated $9,000,000 from...
...Some $500,000 for clothing for schoolchildren so that the poorest Navajo youngster can go warmly dressed to school...
...turning up in rye, oats, grain sorghums or other crops, as farmers put their idle acreage into uncontrolled crops. One thing the soil bank once more proved was that, barring police-state controls, farmers will always outsmart bureaucrats. This year, for example, most farmers gave the soil bank their poorest acres, keeping their best for their price-supported crops. This was legal, if the payment reflected the poor quality of the land. Often it did not. Many farmers plowed up pastureland and planted crops, offsetting any production cutback...