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...sang Walther in the Met's production of Die Meistersinger, and should have won a pocketful of raves. In the demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Comment | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Deep down, India and Pakistan possess an enormous reservoir of mutual good will. But they have been sorely in need of sympathetic guidance from the more sophisticated democracies of the West to resolve their unfortunate political differences and establish a great alliance. Will American leadership today finally rise to the occasion and save democracy in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 14, 1962 | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...Avian Reservoir. The St. Petersburg district had had outbreaks of SLE in 1959 (68 cases) and 1961 (25 cases). The area was known to be seeded with the virus, and a fresh outbreak should have come as no surprise. So far as is known, birds are the main natural reservoir of the virus, which is transmitted from bird to bird, and from bird to man, by mosquitoes. Where St. Petersburg's birds got the virus is uncertain, though Floridians chauvinistically blamed migrants from the tropics. Impartial authorities considered it equally probable that St. Petersburg has by now become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Men & Mosquitoes | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

High-Level Stagnation. The labor shortage is less severe in Italy because of the reservoir of unemployed in the poverty-ridden south, but skills are scarce. In the past nine months, Italian labor has managed to pressure wages up 11.2%-and the cost of living has climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Signs of Slowdown | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who needs all the help he can get from all the Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Happy to Be There | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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