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Long Day's Journey. But this was only the beginning. Surrounding these events was a vast array of lesser-known Verdi-era artifacts that placed the standard fare in fascinating musical and historical perspective. Early risers attended taped Italian radio performances of such out-of-the-way operas from Verdi's journeyman days as Attila, The Corsair and Joan of Arc, in which the Maid dies not at the stake but on the battlefield. Later in the day, in one or another of the marble-and-crystal salons in Newport's stately mansions, the offerings included chamber...
While American population statistics are among the very finest in the world, papers presented to the Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...
...Directions. The Hamburg Opera's distinctive approach, which Germans call "realistic musical theater," is not often seen in America. Instead of featuring barnstorming stars with showy voices, the company uses lesser-known but accomplished singers (many of them American) who stay with the company throughout the ten-month season and blend smoothly into the overall musical texture. Instead of garnishing glorious music with pageantry and posturing, Hamburg produces cohesive, hard-hitting dramatic performances, in which the text is as important as the score. And instead of sticking with proven but sometimes flyblown versions of operatic warhorses, it mounts eight...
...Arab boycott applies only to the U.S., Britain and, to a lesser degree, West Germany. By last week, only Libya among the major Arab producers had failed to resume shipments of at least some oil to other countries. Nonetheless, Arab oil, which supplied one-third of the world's needs until the outbreak of last month's Arab-Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape...
...Common Market has prompted quite a few Western European businesses to integrate across national boundaries, and U.S. companies which operate there are rapidly following suit. Dow Chemical and Jersey Standard have both centralized European operations, and so to a lesser degree have IBM and International Telephone & Telegraph. The latest American company to join the trend also happens to be one of the largest. Ford Motor Co., which has heretofore overseen all of its overseas activities from the U.S., is setting up a European-based subsidiary, Ford of Europe, Inc. The new subsidiary, says Chairman Henry Ford II, should provide...