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...Blue-eyed Douglas Alexander Stewart (6 lbs. 13 oz.), one of some 500 babies born last week in the province's 150 government-supported hospitals, is a good example of the benefits of CCF largesse. Thanks to a compulsory hospital-insurance program introduced in 1947, Douglas' mother Donna, wife of a Regina accounting clerk, received prenatal care free; when she leaves the hospital she will simply get a bill marked "Paid." Douglas will be immunized against childhood diseases at a free public-health clinic. If he should become mentally ill, he would get free psychiatric care. If Douglas...
...Giovanni and Zerlina (Soprano Judith Raskin), Siepi gave his mahogany tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role of Donna Anna in a richly textured voice, with dead-sure marksmanship and apparent power to spare. (Her appearance caused the rejection of the show by eleven of NBC's Southern affiliates...
...only dissonant notes in the performance were the wildly off-key plugs delivered for the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association, which sponsored the show. Even nimble TV veterans found it difficult to switch from a mourning Donna Anna ("The shade of my father/For vengeance it cries!") to a bedridden salesman receiving a bouquet of flowrers with a happy cry: "Why, it's from the boys in the branch office...
...Italy, the question dogs the Communists in every election. In the Neapolitan district of Mergellina, an association of several hundred mothers holds regular meetings and petitions Parliament for word of their sons in Russia. When Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi was in Moscow last month, his wife, Donna Carla Gronchi, demanded an official accounting on behalf of the Italian Red Cross. "I asked for documentation for every one of the missing," she said, "and if any one of them is dead, I want to know how he died, why he died, and where he died...
...Volume III of his memoirs, Le Salut (The Salvation), just published in Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, who was once dubbed a spoiled prima donna by Franklin D. Roosevelt, insists that F.D.R.'s "bitter words showed his bad humor rather than a deep sentiment toward me. If he had lived longer, he would have understood and appreciated the reasons which guided...