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...Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator is a paper mill and a factory that turns out prefabricated houses. The Russian metallurgical plant at Darkhan produces 300,000 tons of steel per year. Soviet geologists claim to have discovered important deposits of coal, copper, manganese fluoride, tin, zinc and wolfram...
Last week Handicapper Trotter, 34, closeted himself in his concrete-walled office for 60 hours in all, handicapping such horses as Bolinas Boy, Chief of Chiefs and Wolfram. Pursuing an elusive goal-"I'm always satisfied with a photo finish" -he follows a general rule of thumb: three lbs. of weight equals one length in a mile race. From his performance charts (meticulously maintained by a trained, fulltime staff of nine), his own turf experience (he began working at tracks when he was 19) and reliable paddock chatter, Trotter gets the information he needs to assign weights: the ability...
...hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannhäuser. In reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal, the researchers noted that...
Fischer-Dieskau is also one of the most consistently popular opera singers in Germany; aided by an imposing 6-ft. 2-in. figure, he has shaped a number of moving characterizations, e.g., Wolfram in Tannhäuser. Sir John Falstaff, and the title role in Busoni's Doktor Faustus. Even more surprising than the scope of his success is the fact that he had no early singing experience: he took his first voice lesson when he was 16, had scarcely started to sing professionally when he was drafted into the German army. As an American prisoner...
...ends up at a lung-bursting fever pitch that even includes personal attacks on Salazar himself: "I'll throw him out!" He has also challenged Salazar in the ex-professor's own field, economics: "Where did all the money go that we got for the cork, the wolfram, the sardines that we sold to both sides during the war? Only into the hands of the hundred privileged families...