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Harvard's Lou Williams won his first-round match but ran into sixth-seeded Dudley Lyons of Amherst in the second round and lost in straight games. At the same time, Vic Niederhoffer joined Wal- ter in keeping Crimson team hopes alive by brushing off Amherst's second, Roger Alcaly, after dropping the first game. This morning Niederhoffer faces Dave O'Loughlin of Pitt, reputedly a tough...
...would no longer be necessary to spend millions to set up foreign subsidiaries." ∙STEEL. "Our industry has survived com petitive situations before," says one big steel executive. "Although this is a tough predicament, we can do it again by pro viding better quality, better service, bet ter technology." ∙OIL. "It is not wage costs between the U.S. and Europe that should be com pared," says Cecil Morgan, Standard Oil of New Jersey's chief of government rela tions, "but unit costs of production; and if you do that you'll see that there...
...successful opera can su'Ter a theatrically weak book, but a really strong book can be a big problem; it threatens to overpower the music. Last week the New York City Opera presented its second Ford Foundation-supported opera of the season-Cleveland-born Composer Robert Ward's The Crucible, based on Arthur Miller's powerful play (first produced on Broadway in 1953). For the most part, score met text on equal terms, producing that rare and hoped-for result: an opera charged with tension...
...Blood Moon tells the story of Ninette Lafont, a beautiful octoroon actress who flees New Orleans on the eve of the Civil War to forget her doomed love for Raymond Barlac, a Southern aristocrat. The wide-ranging plot, based on Dello Joio's own scenario, gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz-larded story. Only the heroine's quadroon mother, Cleo, superbly sung by Contralto Irene Dalis...
...Church. In response to the Rev. Joseph Koci Jr.'s tongue-in-cheek demand for some $760,000 in damages and compound interest, Lloyd legalistically pointed out that since Revolutionary War treaty conventions exempted Britain from further financial responsibility toward her unruly erstwhile American colonies, the St. Pe ter's claim should properly be addressed to "the federal government of the United States or the state government of Pennsylvania, as you feel appropriate." But from his personal treasury World War II Brigadier Lloyd coughed up the original value of the fence-largely, he explained, because the presumed ravager...