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...because the waiter has brought a pack of South African cigarettes, but it lacks heat, since everyone agrees that Verwoerd is a boor. Besides, the big concern of the group is the Chelsea soccer team's match, scheduled for this afternoon. They are the team's most ardent rooting squad, meeting every Saturday for lunch and the trip to the stadium. Chelsea has long been "a joke team," the New York Mets of the football circuit, but lately it has been winning, and, says Haywood, "we're seriously thinking of switching our allegiance to Fulham, making that...
...Showing up for the final session of the construction trades union convention, Vice President Humphrey shouted buoyantly to the 4,000 delegates: "We Democrats need the labor movement. The President of the United States is your friend, and we are not going to let you down!" But even that ardent love call brought no more than a few tepid claps from the disgruntled labor leaders...
...play is not tediously didactic. It is a little bit as if Brecht had purified the character of Mother Courage, made her an ardent, spunky, dutiful young girl, and graced her with luck as well as pluck. The Caucasian Chalk Circle's essential mood is playful and bucolic. But anything bucolic in this repertory production at New York's Lincoln Center is lost in the grinding whirr of revolving stages and the clanking rise and fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching...
...only is Bunny Mellon an enthusiastic Francophile, but she is also an ardent gardener. Last week Interior Secretary Udall gave her a special award for her work as the designer of the Kennedy Rose Garden at the White House. The two enthusiasms soon combined, led the Mellons to collect some of the impressionists' and postimpressionists' most handsome tributes to their own gardens, four of which are reproduced in the accompanying color pages...
Eisenstadt's chief opposition comes from the Hicks-Lee-O'Connor axis of the committee, which has refused to admit either the existence of racial imbalance or the need for constructive action. Many of the more ardent Civil Rights leaders are also hostile to Eisenstadt, regarding him as a political opportunist with no strong convictions. While they may vote for him, they have never trusted him as one of their...