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...fill the gigantic mold of a Wagnerian hero, a tenor should 1) have a voice big enough and resonant enough to soar over the timpani-tempered Wagnerian orchestra, 2) be robust enough to support swooning Wagnerian sopranos, and 3) preferably be named Lauritz Melchior. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, a topnotch revival of Wagner's Die Walkuere (conducted by Karl Boehm) offered the audience a dramatic tenor who ideally fulfilled the first two requirements and made the third one seem unimportant. The tenor: 33-year-old, Canadian-born Jon Vickers...
...massed columns of figures the 1961 budget reflects U.S. confidence in the present and hopes for the months ahead. The whopping revenue estimates were based on Treasury Department forecasts that, in calendar year 1960, the U.S.'s gross national product will soar for the first time in history above the $500 billion mark-and by at least $10 billion. Even so, President Eisenhower was able to say happily at his news conference last week: "We are accused of being too conservative...
...production 85% ahead of the final quarter of 1959. Between now and March 31, the industry expects to produce 2,250,000 cars. It will be the largest first-quarter production in history, if there is no labor trouble. Automen predict that 1960 sales, including 500,000 imports, will soar above 7,000,000. American Motors'George Romney, most enthusiastic of the lot, forecasts...
...view of the steel strike's ugly impact. With 87% of the nation's steelmaking capacity shut down since mid-July, the strike had hindered urgent missile, space and nuclear-submarine programs. If the strike dragged on, secondary layoffs resulting from the steel famine would soar to 1,275,000 by the end of November, and 2,500,000 by the end of December-not counting the 500,000 striking Steelworkers...
...free men shape historic trends toward noble goals," he said, many of today's nettlesome problems will abolish themselves. "As the less developed nations succeed in establishing viable economies and raising their living standards, our own economy will soar to new heights and our technology will be challenged as never before. Burdensome surpluses-even those of wheat-will disappear. Enlarged demand throughout the world will have to be met by new methods, and more effective use of resources everywhere...