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Patience, the spring Gilbert and Sullivan production to be performed late in April, is certainly no adaptation. The cute couplets, scores of love sick maidens, and happy endings could only have sprung from the brows of the illustrious two. Yet Patience, like any true G & S, is a satire and in this operetta what is being so obviously but fondly mocked is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in Victorian England. Banthorne, the hero, is a parody of Oscar Wilde or Swinburne; Patience is the name of the simple village milkmaid he adores...
Athens' tumultuous auto traffic, combined with the factories that have sprung up since the end of World War II, has pumped so much sulfur dioxide into the air that it is literally melting the Parthenon's marble. In the past ten years, according to Greece's Minister of Culture, Constantine Trypanis, the carved details on the five caryatids of the Erechtheum have seriously degenerated, while the face of the horseman on the Parthenon's west side is all but obliterated. In addition to the pollution damage, frosts and water seepage have cracked some of the stones...
...last week the skipper of the Liberian-registered Harmonic, just arrived in New York harbor with a cargo of 25 million gal. of Libyan crude oil, put in an urgent call to the Coast Guard. Possibly the result of heavy storms encountered at sea, the ship had sprung a small leak, spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last. On Dec. 15, when the Liberian-registered Argo...
...since 1965. (One typical lyric ridiculing Communist bureaucrats, "Fat oxen belong in the pot/ Not in official positions.") Thus it came as a surprise when the East German authorities gave Biermann permission to go on a two-week concert tour of West Germany. Once Biermann left, the trap was sprung: his citizenship was canceled. Biermann was disconsolate, and has since pleaded to return...
Competition would also be lessened for Ma Bell's Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary-currently the target of a massive Government divestiture suit (TIME, Dec. 2, 1974). The bill might knock out some of the 400 independent telephone-equipment suppliers that have sprung up in the past eight years since the FCC first allowed non-Bell gadgetry, from entire corporate phone systems to replicas of antique French telephones, to be plugged into AT&T lines...