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Visit does have a genuine and very pleasant first act. The visitor arrives in 1957 from afar, his timing a little askew: he had hoped (and dressed) for the Civil War. Under the surveillance of a general from the Pentagon, he looks about, comments, inquires, and finding that waging war is still Earth's mightiest talent, is all ready to wage an outsized one himself. After that, though satire still fitfully raises its slightly aching head, Visit introduces just about every known vaudeville and revue routine except xylophone-playing and sawing a woman in half. There is an animal...
...nearby Williamsburg, Va., another lady Washington also admired (though presumably from afar) showed up last week, with the discovery in a private collection of another Charles Willson Peale portrait-this one of Actress Nancy Hallam, one of America's first glamour girls. The portrait, unidentified for more than a century, shows Actress Hallam playing the role of Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Hailed as "superfine" by a contemporary theatergoer, and not above playing the daring "breeches part" of a young man on stage, Nancy and her charms lured Washington to the theater five times in one week...
...bunting and flashing red, green and yellow lights. More than 1,200 Progressive Conservative delegates converged on the capital from all over Canada to nominate a new leader at the party's first national convention since 1948. Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will be their Prime Minister if the Tory Party wins the next general election...
Watching Yalta from afar last week the West could not avoid the automatic twinge of uneasiness that comes whenever Communists get together. It would be a jar, indeed, to have strong, rambunctious Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...
Uncle Nehru. Watching from afar, India's Prime Minister Nehru praised Sihanouk ("a young man with a wise head") and became his long-distance adviser and mentor. Last month, after a state visit to the Philippines, young Sihanouk began expressing views like those of Nehru. Angry at some heavy-handed "advising"' he had been subjected to in Manila, he charged the Philippines with participating in a U.S. plot to ensnare him into the SEATO pact (see above) and protested bitterly that while the U.S. had given the Philippines heavy farm machinery and hospitals, all Cambodia...