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...They said it couldn't happen in America, but it did," snapped Editor E. S. James's lead editorial in the Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Nabucco was not likely to join vintage Verdi in the regular repertory. One reason was suggested by Arrigo Boito, the great librettist of Verdi's old age. The music would never be as powerfully appealing, Boito felt, to audiences not bred on Italian soil and breathing Italian...
...keep troops and bases on foreign soil, the U.S. will spend $3 billion this year, most of it abroad. Another $1.4 billion will be disbursed for military aid programs, of which about $300 million will be spent outside the U.S. Of the $867 million that will be spent on economic aid by the International Cooperation Administration, more than half will be spent abroad. To make the balance of payments even more lopsided, foreign investments in the U.S., which usually run at a rate of about $500 million a year, have fallen to almost zero. What can the U.S. do, without...
...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
When the demand tapered off after Korea, the government stepped in to buy up surplus, to guarantee stable prices, and, in general, to prevent a market crisis. Congress instituted the Soil Bank program to reduce the increasing surplus by paying the farmer to take land out of cultivation...