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...memories of empire and artistry in opera's most florid era, when Victoria's passion for singers helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly...
Final Innings. All evening the returns came in as the count progressed on whether the people of Los Angeles wanted a goat pasture called Chavez Ravine changed into a site for a big-league stadium (TIME, April 28)-and consequently, whether the legend L.A. on the Dodgers' caps was to become a permanent symbol or a passing memory. All evening the count was closer than the game (final score: Cincinnati 8, L.A. 3). Not until late the next afternoon was Dodger President Walter O'Malley satisfied that his team had won the referendum. The Dodgers themselves reacted...
...their rescue came generous sponsors: the 27-nation Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, which is paying their way to South America, and the Protestants' World Council of Churches, which found and bought their Brazilian refuge. The site: 6,000 acres of rich pineland, 10% cleared, about 200 miles southwest of Sāo Paulo. Led by 74-year-old Starik (Elder) Antonov Kulikov, the first contingent of Old Believers picked up 64 tons of seed, fertilizer, tools and clothing in Los Angeles from U.S. Protestants before sailing for Brazil...
...Cult Phase. With Dr. Sasaki she worked at Manhattan's First Zen Institute of America. In 1950 Ruth Sasaki returned to Kyoto, where she rented a small house built for a retired roshi on the site of what had been the Ryosen-An branch of the Daitokuji Temple. Amply provided with funds from her first husband's estate, she remodeled and enlarged the house to provide a center and library for U.S. students of Zen. She ran into an unexpected obstacle when the Daitokuji Temple insisted that the new center be designated as the restored sub-temple...
...MILLION SKYSCRAPER of 50 stories is planned for present site of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal Office Building. Group headed by Manhattan Builder Erwin Wolfson agreed to lease land from owner of site, New York Central and New Haven Railroads. But Wolfson, who was in one of the three other abortive deals for similar buildings, still has to sign final lease and get financing...