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...figures are expected to be closer to 10,000 cases and 2,500 deaths-an enormous achievement, even allowing for continued underreporting. The improvement has been made despite manpower shortages, and the fact that ordinary vaccine will not keep for more than a day in torrid India...
...Burns Torrid...
Corris' showdown with Buckley was postponed because of the Yalie's illness, but that didn't deter the Crimson record holder from lowering his Harvard record in the 200-yard breaststroke to 1:15.2. Corris followed the Blue's Dick Traver's torrid 1:02.8 pace for the first 100 and glided into the lead and won easily, relaxing over the last 50. If Buckley swims in the Easterns next weekend, he could well receive the surprise Corris was planning to spring on him Saturday...
Complex Tapestry. Yet as opera, Don Rodrigo was something less than a torrid success. Ginastera's score, based on a twelve-tone scale and structured after the manner of Alban Berg's groundbreaking 1921 masterwork, Wozzeck, struck the ear but not the heart. It was a complex musical tapestry, flecked with startled tones of brass and wood wind and splotched with splashes of percussion. In total, the score failed to achieve the delineation of character and dramatic thrust that distinguish great opera from good. Don Rodrigo was nonetheless an adventure worthy of the underwriting (by Mrs. John...
Taking the lead at the gun, Burns set a torrid pace, whippping through the 440 seconds. He continued past the half mark in 1:54.5, about three seconds faster than his normal 1000 pace...