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Other crowned heads may lie uneasy, but not Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte. Though the smallest country in the U.N. with an area of 999 sq. mi., Luxembourg is the world's tenth largest steel producer. Its 322,000 citizens are the most prosperous in Europe; unemployment rarely exceeds one dozen. Its biggest postwar crisis came when the victorious Allies granted Luxembourg 2 sq. mi. of German territory. Defending its territorial integrity, Luxembourg refused to take the land. Charlotte has ruled her serene, bucolic land for 42 years, making her the world's most durable head...
...just four months, Thao has recaptured about half of the 75 villages once controlled by the Communists in Kienhoa. He has driven the surviving 800 guerrillas into a 130-sq.-mi. pocket and hopes to have them cleaned out within a year. He has torn down most of the jails in the province, built hospitals and schools, and he is now training 370 schoolteachers to replace corrupt village officials. Says Thao: "It is a long, slow process. We cannot win unless the people are on our side...
...undisputed star. Throughout the long evening she demonstrated again her remarkable ability to compel an audience to belief through sheer beauty of tone; from the rage of Act I's Or sal chi I'onore to the tenderness of the second act's Non mi dir, she moved securely and with absolute conviction. Her two great arias stopped the opera cold in two of the most spontaneous ovations of the season...
Among the stopping points: the Jewel Song from Faust, Mi chiamano Mimi from Boheme, Signore, ascolta from Turandot. For insatiable Moffo fans, Angel also offers an album of Coloratura Arias (Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis) that are every bit as distinguished, with the single exception of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene: the delivery is splendid, but Moffo sounds about as mad as a hermit thrush...
...Mi. Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker are the only bright notes in a gangster-gimmicked reminder of just how good Guys and Dolls really...