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Able Chicago Impresario Lawrence V. Kelly, who undertook the staggering job of installing an opera company deep in the heart of Texas, had managed to snag Maria Callas to kick off his new Dallas Civic Opera Company with a grand inaugural concert. But earlier in the season the diva dived off the deep end and failed to appear with the San Francisco Opera Company, pleading ill-health (TIME, Sept. 30). Rumors said that her voice had cracked. Some people in Dallas thought she could not sing, others that she would not. Texans by the droves failed to buy tickets...
...Summing Up. When it comes to assessing Freud's influence on his fellow men, Jones sees a snag. "What chiefly impresses [a psychoanalyst]," he says, "is the shallowness of so much of what passes as acceptance of Freud's ideas, and the superficiality with which they are treated. They are so often bandied about lightly as a form of lip service that one cannot help suspecting that much of the so-called acceptance is really a subtle form of rejection, a protection against assimilation of their profound import...
...ordering Secretary Dulles to fly to London for the talks, President Eisenhower hoped to settle a snag in the Western presentation of its case. Western Europeans do not want their territories open for Soviet aerial inspection unless the U.S. is inspected too. On the other hand, they would resent an arrangement which set up inspection zones exclusively on U.S. and Soviet territory, leaving Europe out. Dulles' mission is to resolve just what segment of the world's horizon is to be offered to the Russians as an "open...
...more than 100 Hindi experts have translated 31,000 English scientific terms into Hindi (they plan to translate 300,000 by 1960). But many terms, such as units of weights and measures, have merely been transliterated. And in the field of chemistry the translaters have hit a major snag. When the Hindi vocabulary was first initiated, Indians knew only seven of the 90-odd stable elements known today. As a result, an Indian chemist talking Hindi sounds like a man switching continually' from English to Hindi in the same sentence. Students entering .engineering schools with little or no knowledge...
Sagging ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, 42, hit a new snag in his game effort to wrestle his way out of the red, pay off a mountainous $1,210,789 in federal income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Examined by an Illinois Athletic Commission doctor, Wrestler Joe was found to have a "cardiac contusion," i.e., damage to the outer layer of his heart, possibly suffered when, as Louis recalled, he cracked three left ribs in a recent grappling match in Ohio. Upshot of the diagnosis: Louis, if his disability proves permanent, can never again wrestle in Illinois, will probably...