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...concerto by Leon Kirchner, Conductor Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...
...fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...
...test its ability to go over to a war tempo, and to convince Congress that it needs modernization, MATS mounted a 14-day, $10.6 million "Operation Big Slam." Into Puerto Rico's sun-soaked Ramey Air Force Base and Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, from 14 fields as far off as Hickam in Honolulu (6,000 miles), some 250 MATS planes began lifting 20,530 troops and 11,150 tons of gear. Last week Ramey roared with a take-off or landing every 3¼ minutes (Berlin airlift average: one every three minutes). Up to 101 planes were...
...tough, expert force that can move fast. The performance of the Latin soldiers and flyers was uniformly good, and the Brazilians were so impressive that 82nd Airborne officers talked of picking up some of their techniques. This week, the U.S. will top off Operation Banyan with "Operation Big Slam," airlifting 22,000 troops from all over the U.S. to Puerto Rico. As might be expected, the Cuban press denounced the maneuvers as "provocative war games," but the Latin troops went home pleased and proud about a new form of peacetime cooperation among American nations...
...Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...