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...Manhattan theatergoers who are flinging themselves with glad abandon upon the recent hit revivals of My Fair Lady and Threepenny Opera think they are seeing the rebirth of the nation's longest-running musicals, they are wrong. The record is held by an unprepossessing little Off-Broadway show called The Fantasticks, and it does not need to be reborn for the simple reason that it never died...
John T. Bethell '54 editor of the magazine is not ready to abandon his goal of attaining 100,000 readers for the national edition "I think we have something worth fighting for," he said yesterday. "I wait with baited breath to see what each day will bring...
...Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, continued American intransigence will only weaken the PCI's ability to maintain its distance from Moscow by undermining its contention that there is a "third way" between East and West. American policy makers should abandon their cold war vision of a monolithic international Communist movement, and resolutely refrain from interfering with Italian moves toward the historic compromise...
...intransigence of the Christian rightists had also caused irritation in Damascus. Observed Syrian Information Minister Ahmad Iskander: "If President Assad and Syria did not have the patience of Job, we would have stopped [peacekeeping] efforts long ago." However frustrating the task, Assad is not expected to abandon his efforts in Lebanon. For one thing, he is concerned that more radical Arabs, such as the Iraqis and the Libyans, may make further inroads in a country that Syria would like to keep strictly within its own sphere of influence. An unstable or radical Arab regime in Lebanon would not only increase...
...state-owned Soviet ships saddled with the interest and financing charges that can account for about half the costs of running a Western vessel. Beyond that, the Soviet merchant marine does not have to show a profit; the state can absorb losses until Western lines cut service, or even abandon unprofitable routes. If that happens, warns A.E. Lemon, director of the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co., "the Russians will be able to raise rates to whatever level they wish...