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...Dove Song, which soars over ribbons of strings, and in a fine female duet ("He will, he must He'll be coming back" ) toward the end. For all that, Wings of the Dove suffers from a case of dramatic anemia. Composer Moore does his best to summon drama where no drama exists, but the assignment is hopeless. In its succession of empty climaxes, the score loses almost all its tension. James's novel, the opera demonstrates once more, is best left to its own complexities...
Four days and 16 jungle miles after the forced landing, Nagle's survival-kit radio managed to summon a rescue helicopter. "Nobody enjoys an experience like that," said Captain Nagle, "but that is what you're trained to meet." And last week he was right back on the job. He had reached the Meos at last, was teaching the tribesmen new techniques for fighting the Communist Pathet Lao rebels...
...Moscow this week, after last-minute revisions to satisfy NATO allies, will go the U.S. answer to Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. The State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand. The President this week will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans (his top aides have already visited Gettysburg to inform Dwight Eisenhower), issue a statement on Berlin at his midweek press conference, hold a planning session of the National Security Council...
...America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington, to the rescue...
After three weeks of meditation and tropical anonymity in Nassau and Florida, former Vice President Richard Nixon emerged long enough to summon Hearst Reporter and bestselling Author Jim (The Day Christ Died) Bishop to reveal some intriguing inklings of his future plans. To all who would challenge his leadership of the Republican Party, he had a firm reply: "No one becomes a leader by saying, 'I am the leader.' The contributions I made to the party, their quality as well as their quantity, will make me the actual leader of the Republican Party. I am the leader...