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...Longest Day, Ryan...
Tenor Vickers made an inauspicious Met debut earlier in the year in Pagliacci, later scored a notable triumph as Florestan in Fidelio (TIME, Feb. 8). His performance last week in the role of Siegmund prompted some of the loudest and longest cheers heard at the Met this season. A solidly constructed man (5 ft. 9 in., 215 lbs., chest 47 in.), Vickers is a passionate, convincing actor; his voice is heavy but admirably flexible, capable of varied and subtle shadings. It was at its most spectacular when it surged over the orchestra in Siegmund's furious outbursts...
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...possibilities greater than in Venezuela, where President Rómulo Betancourt, 51, a classic example of the legendary conspirator-gone-respectable, inherited the mess left when Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez ran out two years ago. Next week Betancourt ends his first year in office-the longest term of constitutional government in the dictator-ridden country's history. Perhaps his biggest success is simply surviving that long...
Leaving Sant Ignazio Church in downtown Rome, popular, jovial Pope John XXIII, 78, waved off his chauffeur, strolled some 300 yds. to the Capranica Seminary, where he was to speak to some young priests. It was his longest walk outside the Vatican since his elevation to the Papacy. Feeling much like a young priest himself, His Holiness observed: "Our legs can still bear us, and this is the best way to move. But on foot, in an automobile or in the air, the important thing is to go forward-wherever the Lord wants...