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...John Vliet Lindsay, who had planned no more ambitious a ploy than to referee an exhibition bout between Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz and his sparring partner, the sweat, the blows -and the appreciative gasps-were just part of the job. But for 2,000,000 people in the city's slums, they were proof that somebody cared. Indeed this concern was just what they had come to expect from the 45-year-old mayor of New York...
...does not think the original Fidelio will find a place in regular operatic productions, but he sees it as a strong, if difficult, addition to the concert and festival repertory. "It represents the composer at his hottest," he says-and by way of proof, Leinsdorf had to change his sweat-soaked jacket at intermission. "In it, like the genius he was, Beethoven was asking for things ahead of his time which probably could not be done." As Leinsdorf, the orchestra and the singers-particularly Soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse and Tenor George Shirley-showed at Tanglewood, they can be done...
...reaction to the "summies" is not difficult to understand. Certainly not all the girls are dumb--Wellesley sends probably the largest contingent other than Radcliffe--and not all of them, tease there hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your won kind, so you don't feel terribly close...
...stranger to fear, but I have never endured fear as intense or as protracted as I experienced that night. I was so frightened I could hear myself sweat...
Giving advertising a macabre twist, Pacific Air Lines is seeking to lure passengers by selling spoof instead of frills. "HEY THERE! YOU WITH THE SWEAT IN YOUR PALMS," read the headline that kicked off its nationwide campaign. "Most people are scared witless of flying," it went on. Moreover, the ad revealed, every time a P.A.L. plane takes off a pilot wonders "if this is it." Explaining the odd campaign, New York Lawyer Matthew E. McCarthy, the trunk line's chief executive and biggest shareholder, said: "It's basically honest. We spoof the passengers' concern, but at least...