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Animal-Like Howl. The Japanese had paid up to 32,000 yen ($110) for a pair of top tickets, about twice the tab in New York. No price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra...
Real Power. Few people in Taiwan expected Chiang's passing to have much effect on the country's future. Real power had already been given to the Generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 65, who became Premier three years ago (Vice President C.K. Yen, who succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President, is expected to be little more than a figurehead). Chiang Ching-kuo is unlikely to change his father's adamant refusal to negotiate any land of political settlement with the Communists in Peking...
...secretly in the coastal city of Nha Trang on March 14 with Lieut. General Pham Van Phu, commander of Military Region II. The President decided to take the most drastic of steps-strategic retreat. The four ranger groups defending Kontum were shifted southeast to the coastal province of Phu Yen, to be followed a few days later by the 1,200-truck refugee convoy from Pleiku...
What is Gunn driving at? He is saying that Alexander, an artist of seemingly impeccable integrity, has sold out and been destroyed by his yen for lucre. This is twaddle. No artist has ever been corrupted or humiliated by the quest for cash unless he was a willing accomplice...
Eugene Wu, librarian of the Harvard--Yen hing library, said that they, too, had been severely restricted by the combined effect of inflation and devaluation. They have been forced to cancel numerous subscriptions to Japanese periodicals, and are unable to purchase many of the Japanese books they want. Japanese publications have risen 40 to 50 per cent in the past few months...