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...Crucible, a contemporary opera based (tenuously) on the play by Arthur Miller, keeps reminding you how good it is all evening long, and necessarily so: without reminders, one would forget very quickly. The music, by Robert Ward, is a nightmarish splice of bad Richard Strauss and the sound track from the scenic sections of a True Life Adventure Film. The product of too much emotion music form Grade B movies, Ward's chords smother in their instumescence. When Ward does shear off the blathering orchestral fat, the musical thought that remains strikes out as absolutely insipid. Three hours of such...
...salute. Cannon roared at Windsor and Cardiff castles, and as far away as Gibraltar and Accra. Over Buckingham Palace the Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...
Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed that sudden de-icing of the 707's trimmed elevators had sent the jet's nose down. Favorite statistic of survivors: just before the 29,000-ft. descent, Captain Lynch had climbed from 28,000 ft. to 35,000 ft. to get over a storm...
...victim of arteriosclerosis has a shutdown in an easily accessible artery (e.g., thigh or arm), surgeons can cut out the diseased section and splice in a graft, or split the artery lengthwise and scrape out the bottleneck deposit. At a Chicago medical meeting last week, specialists were speculating on what seemed only a possibility-that a similar technique could be used to scrape out the coronary arteries in case of shutdowns in the heart (coronary thrombosis or occlusion). Whereupon Philadelphia's famed Heart Surgeon Charles P. Bailey rose to report, in effect: "I have just done...
...Clarenville on the east coast of Newfoundland and began a new era in communications. After 30 years of planning, seven months of steaming, Monarch had paid out of her massive hold 4,900 miles of copper-cored, steel-armored, polyethylene-insulated 1¾-in. cable, and with the splice at Clarenville, completed the first underwater telephone cable linking America and Europe. Now, for the first time in history, voices could travel long distances under...