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...Blunt Advice. Tshombe demands that the U.N. formally recognize Katanga's independent status; the U.N. is equally determined to pull Katanga back into the Congo Republic-which can never prosper without Katanga's mineral riches. As part of the pressure on Katanga, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold again last week aimed blunt words at the Belgians, demanding that they cease financial and political support for Secessionist Tshombe...
...season long, the stubby little coach had worked over his beefy team with the blunt tongue he had developed as a paratrooping major in World War II. Nothing helped. Though undefeated, Syracuse squeaked through game after game, was the flop of the football year because it seemed to be living on its reputation as last year's national champion. Last week Coach Ben Schwartzwalder even threatened to demote some of his stars, including 215-lb. Fullback Art Baker, a preseason All-America candidate. Snapped Coach Ben: "If any of you boys sulk about being put on the second team...
...living eye: "The traveler in this land could not record. It was rather as if he himself were recorded ... in the ringing blue sky, the temples, the supple brushes of cypress, the sun beating in a withering hypnotic dazzle on the statues with curly stone hair and blunt sagacious noses...
...trouble is, perhaps, that Becket did not fascinate Anouilh; he merely tempted and challenged him. With that great facility that is his most self-damaging gift, Anouilh has contrived blunt or ironic or booming effects, pulled off scenes involving bedrooms and bishops and cynical Kings of France, and some fine reflective moments too, as when Becket resists the snare of a false humility. But with equal ease Anouilh goes in for every approach, from the slangiest to the most sculptured. He has thus set Peter Glenville problems of staging that have been only partly solved: with the most inward...
Wilbur S. Howell, clerk of the faculty, emphasized that the intent of the decision was not to stop smoking "as a moral evil," but that it was "a blunt matter of dollars and cents." President Goheen said in his recommendation to the faculty that a total of $16,700 could be saved annually--$7700 for cleaning costs and $9000 for sanding and refinishing...