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Last night's display was "extraordinarily bright," and occurs very seldom in this latitude, according to Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy. He said the greenish cast of the aurora was ionized oxygen, and is normal...
Bell & Howell Close-Up! (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Cast the First Stone, first of a series of 15 documentaries, examines racial prejudice in four Northern cities...
...hero and heroine stepped aboard, the sailors cast off the hawsers, the ship glided away from the jetty. The sky glided with it. Seconds later, with the ship supposedly in open ocean and the waves quartering in on the windward rail, the crew started swaying fore and aft. The attempted stage illusion, like the ballet to which it belonged, was handsome, arresting-and just short of convincing. The occasion: the U.S. premiere last week of Ondine, Choreographer Frederick Ashton's most ambitious work to date...
...company recently formed by Ross and his wife, Ballerina Nora Kaye, Dybbuk proved to be a three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...
When De Gaulle's government took over in France and cast about for ways to restore French economic grandeur, one of its major moves was to model its depreciation allowances after the Germans. For new equipment with a life of three years, a French firm is allowed 50% first-year tax write-off, and for equipment to be depreciated over ten years or longer, it can write off no less than 25%. The idea, French experts happily note, almost compels industry to re-equip and modernize itself rapidly. Sweden for a time allowed 100% first-year write-offs...