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...offered the important post of director of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. (He turned it down.) In 1963, the Paris Opera gave him a free hand in producing Alban Berg's Wozzeck: he demanded and got an unprecedented 30 rehearsals, and the opera scored a major triumph. In a six-week tour de force in Paris earlier this year, Boulez again conducted Wozzeck, helped to produce three Stravinsky ballets, gave eight concerts, performed on TV, and recorded an opera and two orchestral pieces. The French critics treated his visitations with a mixture of adulation and almost blind acceptance...
...government, the students are discovering, has met them half-way with a new two-year program. The college sophomore may devote six-week chunks of two successive summers to a leadership-oriented, genteel version of Basic Training, and in the next two years give up only enough time to take four half-courses in ROTC and two hours of drill each week. He graduates, spends two years in the service...
...came and went, but 83 Brattle Street's elevator stayed, thanks to Mrs. Bunting's reversal of her earlier decision. Although a two-week delay now means a six-week delay in the elevator's installation next winter, the Administration decided that the difficulties caused by Commencement, exam period, and moving were reason tough to delay demolition until June...
...Henri Matisse Retrospective" exhibition is the largest travelling exhibiton ever housed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Including more than 350 works, it displays the full range of Matisse's creative activity and development. More than 148,000 people saw it during its six-week stay in Chicago. Anticipating a similar response in New England, the Boston museum will keep the special exhibition galleries open until 10 p.m. Tuesday through Friday until the exhibition leaves on July...
...most complicated rhubarbs in years: the 18-month argument between baseball's moguls and the state of Wisconsin over whether or not the Braves had a right to forsake Milwaukee for the greener lettuce in Atlanta. Judge Roller, a pretty hot fan himself, said no. After a six-week trial and 7,000 pages of testimony, he ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust laws. The league, said Roller, had conspired to "control and allocate" players, to "assign exclusive territorial rights and privileges," and to "limit the number of members in the National...