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...white men & women and 46,000 colored men (persons of mixed blood, whom Malan tried vainly to remove from the voting rolls) will choose between Malan's Nationalists, who won power from the late Jan Smuts in 1948, and the opposition United Party of Jacobus Strauss. "Every vote cast against the Nationalists," trumpets Malan in his perorations, "is a vote for Russians, Indians, the United Nations, the British Labor Party...
...with the blacks?", their candidates can now paint vote-getting pictures of what might happen if apartheid is relaxed, if only on a "separate but equal" basis. The more liberal opposition United Party pays lip service to equality, but insists on separation. United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss hastily assured the voters that if elected April 15, his party too would uphold "traditional segregation...
...concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last Sunday was a welcome change. For the first time, conductor Russell Stanger chose a program that responds favorably to a non-professional performance. This is an effective compromise between the Stephen Foster Johann Strauss child's play that most college orchestras play, and the prohibitively-difficult works that the H.R.O. has attempted in the past...
...never believe anything until it happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance) are winning top notices. Impresario Sol Hurok, who is bringing her back to the U.S. next season, has his eye fixed on the Metropolitan for Mattiwilda...
...free-footed citizen of the world-composing operas (his Love for Three Oranges was premiered in Chicago in 1921), ballets (he collaborated with Paris' famed Impresario Serge Diaghilev for 15 years) and piano concertos which he himself triumphantly played on tour. At 40, he ranked with Strauss, Stravinsky and Schoenberg as one of the world's most challenging composers...