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...Colin Davis, 32, was named principal conductor of the Sadler's Wells Opera and invited by the ailing Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, to assist him at the Glyndebourne Festival. Said Beecham, majestically speaking of himself in the third person: "Sir Thomas hopes that un der these conditions nothing untoward will happen, and it gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since Sir Thomas...
...Seoul's National Assembly building to orate against the Rhee regime. Most were sure that they would all be dead by nightfall. But Song made no attempt to disturb them. The demonstrators cringed visibly when the first army tank rolled up. But it rumbled by as if nothing untoward were happening...
...Germany, was recently promoted from private first class to specialist fourth class. His $26.93 pay hike upped Millionaire Presley's total service salary (including overseas pay) to a cool $135.30 a month. But no sooner did Elvis put on his fancy new golden-eagle arm patch than an untoward infirmity, long predicted by his detractors, laid him low: his tonsils gave out. At week's end Soldier Presley was recovering from his throat infection, and doctors planned no surgery...
...slightly larger but virtually nonfeminizing dose of estrogen. In addition to an encouraging trend in the male death rate, Dr. Kuzma reported that in most cases the levels of cholesterol and other fat fractions circulating in the blood of heart-attack victims returned closer to normal, with no untoward feminizing effects. And Dr. Kuzma found that increasing the dosage, to the point where feminization was unmistakable, conferred no added advantage...
...this era of wing-footed Prime Ministers, who find it easier to pop over in a plane than to telephone. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had been in and out of London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans...