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...Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished with real abandon. The impromptu dialogue was splendid: "Criminal! Madman! You're trying to disembowel me! I'll crack your skull!" Winner: Corelli, who got only a scratch, sent Christoff sulking off with a bloody hand. Boomed the basso later: "He was standing too close; simply to make him draw back, I touched his sword with mine." Declared the tenor: "I was no longer faced with my father, the King of Spain, but with an unleashed Bulgarian...
...first national capital built from scratch since India's New Delhi 30 years ago. Brasilia will not be ready until 1961. But on April 21, 1960. President Juscelino Kubitschek will transfer his government to Brasilia. He wants to rule from there for the last nine months of his term...
...Western viewer may be somewhat confused by her attitude. But Brando has to pretend to take the situation seriously, and it plainly bores him. He has some fun now and then monkey-see-monkey-doing like the Japanese, but he seems to find it unsatisfying to have to scratch himself through a kimono...
Working at a U.S. Army hospital in Augsburg, West Germany, Major Vernon M. Smith put one drop of standard penicillin solution inside the lower eyelid of his subjects, and another drop on a light scratch made on the arm with a hypodermic needle. If within 20 minutes the eye did not become red, itchy or swollen, and if the inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more...
...large freshman contingent was led home by Brandy Harrison, who started with the varsity runners from scratch and produced the fifth fastest corrected time...