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...scrawled notes on a mere five pages of his Carmen score, as well as in the sketches for the sets and lighting that Svoboda had worked up for him last winter. The rest lay mostly in the minds of the people he had talked to about the production. His widow Marit also contributed valuable detail (since Gentele had not wanted Jose or Carmen to be pitied, she suggested that Jose should not kneel or sob over Carmen's body). It then fell to Stage Director Bodo Igesz, recruited from the Met staff, and Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...Europe. There were assassination attempts in London last year on a Jordanian ambassador and an Iraqi ex-Premier. In The Netherlands, the parents-in-law of Andre Spitzer, one of the Olympians slain at Munich, received a stream of telephone calls threatening the lives of Spitzer's widow and baby daughter. Eventually, Israeli security agents had to help the Spitzers leave the country secretly. Only France seems to have been spared such incidents, presumably because Arab terrorists do not wish to embarrass a government that is supplying jet fighters to Libya...
...educational Concord Academy (annual fee for boarders: $4,100). While photographers clicked away, Caroline and a friend strolled around the campus, sipping soft drinks. Back in Athens, meanwhile, her stepfather Aristotle Onassis played host at a roistering party for his son Alexander, 24, Actress Elsa Martinelli, Odile Rodin (widow of Porfirio Rubirosa) and four other intimate chums. The evening ended in a tumultuous traditional session of plate smashing on the dance floor of the Neraida nightclub. "I lost count of the plates," said a witness, "but it must have been an Olympic record." Theoretically, the shattered plates could get Onassis...
...News was both proudly paternal and fiercely independent. When its aviation editor died the News kept sending his paycheck to his widow for nearly ten years, until their twin sons finished college. Nobody intimidated the News; when an advertiser once demanded a picture spread on his Christmas display window, the paper responded by running a friendly story on his chief competitor...
...accused Sao of using his position to assassinate a number of revolutionary cadres. The "president" of the court declared, "The people have decided that Sao will be executed for crimes against the people." In less than an hour, Sao's bullet-ridden body was turned over to his widow, who had been obliged to watch both the trial and the execution...