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...became shrill in the upper register. But in the low and middle registers she sang with flutelike purity, tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reaches-shrill or not-she flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their ample, placid figures tones that esthetes call more beautiful. But just as the greatest beauties among women...
...softening currency, and a tendency to break out in strikes as workers restively try to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, Communism has made some surface gains. About 100,000 Montevideo workers belong to unions that are dominated or influenced by Reds. Keeping up a strenuous cultural-penetration drive, the Soviet Union donates film shorts to the government, free newsreels to movie houses. Red propaganda has convinced an apparent majority of Montevideans that increased trade with the Communist bloc could be a short cut to prosperity...
Back in Washington this week, worn by his long vigil at the bedside of his dying father (see MILESTONES), Nixon was preparing to launch probably the most strenuous political campaign any Republican has ever waged. Flying in a chartered DC-6B, accompanied by his wife and a four-man staff, he will travel 14,136 miles, visit 32 states, make 50 speeches in three weeks. What he learns on this swing will do much to determine the size and shape of the Republican campaign during October and the first week in November...
Columnist Joseph Alsop alternated deep thinking with strenuous legwork. went doorbell ringing in Portland and Seattle to talk with the voters. His findings: 1) the big issue with most people is foreign policy, i.e., peace; 2) voters have made a switch from Ike to Stevenson that may put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic column. But Alsop cautioned: "In most cases, the switchers had made their decisions without passion or violent conviction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later...
...final count was 755½ for Kefanver and 589 for Kennedy, who appeared in time to make the motion for Kefauver's nomination by acclamation. Estes Kefauver ambled onto the platform to express his gratitude. He was half dead from his strenuous exertions, but it made little difference in his appearance. Waving his hands and grinning broadly, he shone all over with delight at finally winning the place−or almost the place−on the national ticket that he had been working hard for lo those four long years...