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...Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang of her love for an unknown troubadour (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until she took poison and died in Act IV, her voice contained some of the bite and much of the richness of a clarinet. But its quality was warmed and softened with womanliness. It floated with effortless grace, swelled until it filled the whole block-long auditorium, tapered off sensuously into a decorative vocal...
...killed or driven back by the electricity before they can spawn, but good fish are affected, too, and the fences are expensive to build and operate. Dr. Moffett felt it would be much better to find some chemical that would kill the infant lampreys in their burrows. The poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial companies to send him chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory...
That Special Poison. As the Deputies reassembled to decide Faure's fate, General Adolphe Aumeran, spokesman for Algeria's bitterest diehards, said cavernously: "The fall of the Cabinet would only have happy consequences." But most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute...
When Faure rose for a final appeal, he scarcely mentioned the Algerian program. Instead, he pleaded with his colleagues not to let "their vision [be] clouded by that special poison of our political life which makes every ministry seem odd if it lasts longer than six months." He concluded: "If your verdict is unfavorable to me, I shall accept it without bitterness; the responsibilities of power are heavy, very heavy . . . If I have not yielded to weariness, if I fight to the end, it is because I think it is my duty to do so; it is because I believe...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...