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...antique combination made the liveliest show in Sweden. II Maestro di Musica, a broadly farcical opera buffa (a pastiche partly based on a 1737 comic opera by Pietro Auletta), filled the Drottningholm Court Theater, built in 1766 during the reign of Queen Lovisa Ulrika. U.S. and European visitors to Stockholm's talent-packed summer music festival learned at first hand why the Swedes are making a new mark for themselves in opera as they already have in movies...
Flexible & Functional. They came as much to see the sights as they did to hear the music. Only a few yards from the Drottningholm (Queen's Island) summer palace and only 20 minutes from downtown Stockholm, the long green lawns and fountains surrounding the theater set it centuries back in time. The building is still owned by the royal family. It has never been damaged, changed or remodeled, and some of its 400 seats still bear the name plates of Queen Lovisa's household staff (King's Great Watch in the front rows, palace kitchen wenches...
...nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during a two-month "tourist season"-the period when the Red Planet...
...convulsions on the dance floor; at least one U.N. functionary has been known to snatch up a tablecloth, wrap it around his waist and do a belly dance. In Paris the tune tumbles endlessly from Left Bank students' rooms; chefs abandon soufflés to hear it. From Stockholm to Sorrento, Bandleader Bob Azzam's Mustapha has spread like a rampaging fungus, is the biggest European juke and nightclub tune since Volare...
...from a single great cloud of gas. But they disagree, sometimes sharply, about the details of how it happened-and none of the theories have ever quite fitted together to give a satisfying solution to one of science's most baffling puzzles. Now, from Professor Hannes Alfven of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology, comes a promising explanation. To explain the solar system, Alfven says, other scientists have used plain old hydrodynamics (the behavior of fluids, including gases); if magnetohydrodynamics (the behavior of ionized gases in a magnetic field) is used instead, many things become clear...