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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before you can get up on stage and sing "Midnight Train" and Manhattan Transfer arrangements with the Opportunes you have to survive three call backs. The first requirement is a basic proficiency at sight-reading "My Country 'tis of Thee" along with singing sequences of five or six notes at "strange" intervals to test the ears, according to Director Wayne C. Johnson...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Trying to Make it Into a Harvard A Capella Group | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

TUCSIN -- Museum internship-tocatalogue, preserve and exhibit small museumcollections of artifacts and items of naturalhistory. Also to train local people interested inmuseum work. Candidate should have a background inanthropology and museum work...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Discrimination Policy Discussed | 2/6/1986 | See Source »

...speaks earnestly about Philippine Communism. "In central Luzon, many Communists like me are not direct victims of Marcos," Victus acknowledges, "while in Mindanao, many join the party because they have been victims." Disciplined and ideologically committed, Victus is the sort of man the N.P.A. likes to put forward to train raw recruits and promote its movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Communist Insurgency | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Specially designed shuttle trains will provide double-deck rail cars for automobiles (proposed fare: about $30 for a vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Hands Below the Sea | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...basket. Beginning in 1885, the Czars commissioned Russian Jeweler Carl Faberge to create a series of egg-shaped treasures. No two were alike, but most were covered with jewels and gold and could be opened to reveal a dazzling surprise, perhaps a miniature palace or a windup train. Before the dynasty was overthrown in 1917, Faberge produced between 54 and 57 of these Imperial eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rotten Egg: A Faberge fiasco at Christie's | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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