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...famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...
...Hindus, one of the holiest places in the universe is the city of Allahabad (pop. 332,295) in northern India. It is holy because it is one of the four spots where the urn of immortality dripped its nectar in the struggle between the gods and the demons. And it is also holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers...
When it was all over, the exhausted authorities congratulated themselves on an Urn Festival like no other. Only one river boat had capsized, but its eleven pilgrims had all been rescued. And no one had been trampled to death...
...hero's death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
...seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...