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...evenings can grow long at Germany's Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and many an operagoer has cast a furtive glance at his watch as the Teutonic roll and tumble thundered on. Furtive watch watchers may not know that backstage, opera-house technicians have been keeping their own Teutonically thorough stop watch record of Festival performances since 1876. How the tradition started, or why, no one can remember. But now a former Bayreuth technician has leaked some of the results, affording opera lovers some interesting sidelights on the old question of conductors' tempos and tempers. Items...
...scientific standards, the time differential between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is inconsequential. Spectacular as manned satellites will be, they are not an end in themselves. Says one U.S. technician: "Space is a passageway-not a destination." With orbital flight just around the corner, scientists are already looking for new places for man to go, new things to do, and new problems that might confront him when he breaks completely free from Planet Earth to seek his destiny in the uncharted, perpetual night of outer space...
...women's 3-meter springboard dive, California's favored Paula Jean Myers Pope, a 25-year-old dental technician, looked more like an ugly duckling than a swan in her opening try ("I went over too far and the entry was bad"), never did recover and finished second to East Germany's cool Ingrid Kramer, a 17-year-old student who started diving five years ago when her father decided to make her into an athlete and pitched her into the pool. The loss was the first ever suffered by the U.S. in the event...
...carefully, has obviously weighed each word for accuracy and appropriateness, has listened for its value and effect. In his most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...
Shattered Hopes. A cool political technician like Richard Nixon could appreciate the cool engineering that brought Jack Kennedy his victory. Kennedy painstakingly gathered Midwestern Democratic politicians into his camp, used their convention votes to capture the nomination. The prize won, he turned his back on the Midwesterners, shattering their hopes that one of their own would be the vice-presidential nominee...