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Ballet buffs waited patiently for 33 steamy hours outside Manhattan's musty old Metropolitan Opera House merely for the privilege of buying standing-room tickets. Others had queued up three weeks earlier-at 5 a.m.-to snap up seats that cost as much as $50 a pair. Late-risers shuffled dejectedly to the end of a half-block line. But scarcely five minutes after the opening curtain, the audience knew that its trouble had all been worthwhile. In the first U.S. appearance of its distinguished 223-year history, Leningrad's Kirov Ballet...
...Hanover Bank, the trustbusters said that they would persist in the courts-which means that the case may drag on for months after all the banks' change has been put in one pocket. And when Ford announced that it planned to absorb noncompetitive Philco (see Corporations), the snap reaction among many businessmen was: "What will Bobby Kennedy...
...some snap back into sagging Seiberling Rubber Co., Chairman James P. Seiberling, 63, son of the founder, handed the presidency and chief executive title to Executive Vice President Harry Paul Schrank, 58. Schrank's promotion stilled, at least momentarily, the feud between the Seiberling clan and Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, who lost an all-out proxy war in 1956 but now holds five seats on the isman board. The move, crowed Lamb, has "my enthusiastic support." Outspoken Harry Schrank, respected by competitors for his gift for spotting industry trends, plans to push diversification in chemicals and plastics...
...stuck with one permanent type face. Typists can change type styles in a matter of seconds by opening the machine's cover and replacing one typing element with another bearing one of the six different type faces supplied by IBM. Typing ribbons come in plastic cartridges that snap into place and do not have to be threaded on reels by the typist. Paper is inserted by being placed against the roller, which automatically feeds it into the machine with the pressing of a button. The Selectric comes in two sizes, an 11-in. model...
Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...