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...artificially dried or the presses must be slowed to give the ink time to dry. For years, the fastest web offset presses ran at about one-third the speed of the fastest letter-presses. The tackier offset ink. together with the rubber cylinder, collects paper dust, which can botch a printing job. The web offset process is more wasteful of paper than letterpress. And on long offset-press runs, the ink tends to emulsify with the water played on the impression plate and thus spread until the page turns into an unrecognizable blob...
...play's director, Donald McWhinnie, deserve the highest praise for A Passage to India, and I wish its American production the best of luck. E. M. Forster explained the novel's popularity here during the '20's by saying that Americans liked it because it showed what a botch the British made of India. Perhaps now we shall understand Forster's book better. It talks about India, and blames the British for acting like gods; they were not big enough-and who is?-to rule another people. But it also enters a plea for tolerance, good temper, and sympathy-qualities...
Thames was not even Mozart's idea. Conceived by a wealthy dilettante named Tobias Philipp von Gebler and scored by an obscure schoolmaster, the thing was such a botch that Gebler, taking a friend's advice, paid Mozart to write a new score. The composer did considerably better than the librettist. On Gebler's flimsy plot-the love of a young Pharaoh for a temple virgin-Mozart draped 22 minutes of delightful music that almost compensated for 81 minutes of unrelievedly boring talk. Nevertheless, Thames talked itself to death, closed shortly after its premiere in Vienna...
...Sale. In his ramshackle capital of Stanleyville in faraway Eastern province, Antoine Gizenga discreetly remained in bed with a case of diplomatic "bronchitis." To help him assess his victory in the parliamentary elections, he had on hand a recently arrived delegation of Russian and Czech advisers. Remembering the botch they made of their effort to take over the Congo with Patrice Lumumba, the Communists this time may urge Gizenga to let President Kasavubu name one of his own men as Premier-on the theory that whoever he picks is bound to fail...
...unfazed: "Sometimes a little emphasis to accentuate the positive is helpful. I feel very happy." As for the Administration, in quieter times it might have been squirmingly embarrassed. But the way bigger news was breaking, the White House paused only for a brief tch-tch at The Klotz Botch. "Herbie's plenty gung ho," shrugged one Presidential aide, "but in the wrong direction." Said White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger dryly: "I don't think anyone in the Administration thinks the President's name is not in the papers enough...