Word: minton
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (London). Conducted by Georg Solti, this Rosenkavalier neatly obliterates its recorded competition. Three lush-voiced ladies (Régine Crespin, Helen Donath and Yvonne Minton) keep the story poised convincingly between spring and autumn and the music teetering tenderly on the verge of tears. The big cast is stuffed with the names of well-loved Viennese singers, as well as the Met's sensational new tenor, Luciano Pavarotti...
...started seven weeks ago and came after union and industry negotiators had agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a package of 710 an hour spread among wages, insurance, pensions and other benefits. Thus the strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept it. But by a decisive 63-to-30 vote, local presidents rejected the offer and rebuffed their leader...
...cases, switches are impractical. Whisky makers cannot use plastic, for instance, because the containers affect the taste of the liquor. And since blood and blood plasma, as well as many kinds of drugs, have to be shipped in glass, hospitals are threatened with a serious shortage of necessary supplies. Minton, who is now belatedly backing his striking union members, predicted that a strike settlement was going to take a long time. Said he: "Now maybe people will realize how important the glass industry...
Died. Al Kelly, 69, doubletalking comic, who for 51 years delighted all sorts of audiences, prompting conventioning doctors to nod sagely at such prescriptions as "injections of triprobe into the right differnarian" and once inspiring Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton to exclaim: "If ever a man be longed in Washington, you do"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
After all, it was a "happening," and it was happening to them in Paris-just as it had earlier that night when two girls dressed in cabbage leaves whacked onlookers' heads with bad minton rackets, or when the motorcycle charged through the hall like a bull at Pamplona, or when they watched the crucified chicken flopping on the stage until it ran dry of blood...