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August 4, 1975

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A MIRACLE IN THE DESERT

Winthrop Sargeant

PROFILE of 49-yr.-old John Crosby, founder & General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, which every summer presents the most sophisticated opera in America. …

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I-FROM MACARTHUR TO MIKI

REPORTER AT LARGE about postwar Japan up to 1954. Tells about how Jpan developed economically after the war despite American attempts to weaken her up to …

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