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...midst of all this, the President of the U.S. added a little grace note of his own to the continuing blare of the cold war. He ordered a step-up in the U.S.'s potential for fighting guerrilla wars...
...have for the past few months been fitted on top with huge canvas cylinders: to save gasoline they are now run on natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread as it is this year. Signs posted in eating establishments blare out the message: 'You don't need your "whole" ration. Eat no more than will keep the hunger away.' Mess halls compete for the 'Red Star' which is awarded to the establishment that has managed to serve its patrons even less than did its neighbors...
...note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon and "pure American" funeral parlors with displays of open, polished coffins...
...Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show up at the Central Plaza, a mammoth jungle gym where teen-agers bring their own bottles and where there are two cops in uniform, so it seems, for every...
...have been but is given an unvarying funny-paper treatment. The show, too, has an altogether loose-leaf structure, while the Meredith Willson score is not up to The Music Man's and has nothing as infectious as Seventy-Six Trombones. But it gives a kind of joyous blare to the evening; along the way there is some nice dancing, rowdy in Leadville, chic in Monte Carlo; there are some funny remarks; and from time to time, there is some funny business...