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...coed from Vassar, the Boston Globe quoted, described Dartmouth as "a sylvan bucolic place with a good academic climate." She went on to comment on the week, "we must have coeducation; girls intellectually sit on their fannies when they are alone...
BELLINI: NORMA (London; 2 LPs). Bellini's sylvan tragedy is rarely heard onstage, for since Giuditta Pasta introduced it in 1831, only a handful of sopranos have felt equal to the task of impersonating one of the most complex, heroic and appealing roles in opera. The latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price...
...Sylvan Setting. During the diplomatic pas de deux by Washington and Hanoi, Johnson sought to emphasize that the U.S. had its right hand "up high." After conferring with Johnson in the sylvan setting of Camp David, Md., Defense Secretary Clark Clifford returned to the capital to announce that 24,500 Army, Air Force and Navy reservists and National Guardsmen were being called...
...proprietary pride as for profit. Himself one of the nation's most highly regarded real estate planners, Dowling won fame for his design of Philadelphia's pioneering downtown Penn Center project. He also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research facilities (among its tenants: International Nickel, Reichhold Chemicals). Other City properties range from Florida retirement communities to shopping centers as well as two Broadway theaters...
...Real Rot. Though the "Morgenthau Plan" brought him his greatest notoriety, Henry Morgenthau Jr. was an epicenter of argument long before the German controversy arose. A wealthy Jewish apple farmer from New York's sylvan Dutchess County, he was among the first of Franklin Roosevelt's braintrusters, having gone to Washington in 1933 to administer the wrenching fiscal reforms of the New Deal. Those beginnings and the battles during which Morgenthau frequently and deliberately drew the fire of outraged bankers and businessmen to save...