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...da. Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy...
...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...
Designing helicopters is a hobby that dates back to Leonardo da Vinci, and many of today's enthusiasts still prefer to build their own rather than buy mass-produced kits or blueprints. San Diego's Jim Cassell and Don Machado, both technical illustrators, are designing a helicopter that will fold its rotors, drive like a car on the ground. Draftsman Herman Saalfeld of San Diego planned his own 6-ft. 6-in. Skyshooter, a sophisticated chopper that carries two passengers in a bubble canopy, boasts a top speed of 95 m.p.h. and a range of 250 miles...
...last week. Soprano Leontyne Price brought to Anna a vitality that she rarely had before, gave as fine a reading of the role as present-day operagoers are likely to hear and see. As in her previous appearances in this triumphant debut season-Leonora in Il Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly-Soprano Price was setting new standards by which to judge some of opera's classic roles...
...wind") by the small Michelangelo to a large fellow artist that cost the hero a smashed nose and lifelong disfigurement. There is the early patronage and early death of Lorenzo de' Medici ("77 Magnifico"). There are the later duels of wills (with Pope Julius II) and skills (with Da Vinci, Bramante, Raphael). There is the unmarried Michelangelo's dutiful, lifelong support of his brothers and of a father who believed that "working with his hands" was beneath a Buonarroti's dignity. Michelangelo's possible homosexuality an iffy question for any biographer, is "skirted by Author Stone...