Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chief of state would feel really satisfied about Kennedy himself until he saw him across a conference table. Adenauer and West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who will probably face each other in Germany's own election next year, let it be known that they just happened to be planning trips to the U.S. shortly after inauguration. Other leaders, equally curious, would probably soon be in line. Kennedy himself has indicated that he plans a minimum of gallivanting around abroad...
...Angeles, Nixon eluded reporters by switching en route from his Cadillac to a white convertible, sped off on a mystery trip that took him some 150 miles through sunny Southern California. His destination on the most crucial day of his career: Tijuana, Mexico, where he lunched (enchiladas, tacos and German beer) with Tijuana's mayor, Xicotencatl Leyva Aleman. Nixon stopped by the roadside to play touch football briefly with a group of marines from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, took time off on the way back to show an aide the San Juan Capistrano Mission, gulp down...
...seconds of the first round. He taught riding at a resort in New Hampshire, worked as a mail rider packing the post into a gold mine near Cooke City, Mont. He played tinkly-tonk piano in little bins in Greenwich Village, Third Avenue bars, beer halls in Manhattan's German quarter. He took three weeks to learn the organ, played at Keith's Albee in Brooklyn. He also played the piano on a cruise ship that commuted between Miami and Havana. "I was a bad sailor," he says, "and had to throw up after every chorus...
...stories of George London, Leontyne Price, Gloria Davy, et al. Although a great many of the new U.S. expatriates would prefer to sing at home, there is no room for them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some 150 U.S. singers in German-speaking houses today, constituting about...
...boom for U.S. singers in Europe may not continue much longer. Although German managers are eager to get Americans, who generally have had a broader musical education than young European singers, the German Theater Union is bitterly opposed to imported talent. Germany should not be a training ground, the union argues, for foreign singers. Moreover, most of the provincial houses already have as many Americans on their rosters as they can handle, and the hundreds of hopefuls who flock across the Atlantic each year are finding jobs increasingly scarce. The U.S., one critic pointed out last week, will either have...