Marian Anderson to Launch Farewell World Tour in 1965
Famed Negro contralto Marian Anderson announced a farewell world concert tour next year with retirement planned for spring 1965. The 55 year old said she may devote more time to civil rights work and educating children, after performing at Carnegie Hall on Easter Sunday 1965. Her career includes historic Met Opera debut in 1955 and U S UN delegate appointment in 1958.
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Man Builds Long Organ Pipe For Low Christmas Note
In Westerly Rhode Island Robert Young spent a week and a half crafting an eight by two foot organ pipe in his cellar to supply a very low note for a Christmas cantata at Christ Episcopal Church. He collaborated with organ builder Charles Fiske of Gloucester Massachusetts, a friend of Westerly Community Chorus conductor George E. Kent. Sunday concertgoers will hear the lowest note yet produced in the church.
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Asia's Bhakra Nangal Dam opens as biggest power project
New Delhi reports the Bhakra Dam in the Bhakra Nangal project, 740 feet high, begins operation 150 miles north of New Delhi. The $350 million effort, funded largely by India, aims to tame floods, supply 800 000 kilowatts at full finish, irrigate 6.7 million acres, and power 450 million people with long canals and new industries. The project involved American engineers led by M Harvey Slocum and total output will reach 800 000 kilowatts, with Nangal already supplying 154 000 kilowatts since 1955.
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