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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Echoes of Chile's presidential election will be sounding around Latin America for years-and not merely because the Communists were thrashed in their attempt to take power by democratic means. Marxism has never succeeded at the ballot box. The bigger news is the man and the party that won: Eduardo Frei and the Christian Democrats, who are rapidly emerging as a vital new force, not only in Chile but in all of Latin America...
This week, as The Unsinkable Molly Brown begins its tenth and final week at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the picture will set an alltime Music Hall record for box-office gross-something close to $2,000,000. About 21,000 people a day have been queuing their way to Molly despite all the heat of summer. She thus breaks the $1,885,335 record of 1962's That Touch of Mink, a Gary Granter, which in turn replaced Fanny ($1,573,580), which in turn replaced The Great Caruso...
...musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies as "gaiety is the only atmosphere for music making." As for the age-old maxim that deviations from the standard classical repertory spell box-office suicide, Steinberg persists season after season in offering one of the most adventuresome and widely varied pro grams in music...
...Lone Ranger ("Hi-Ho, Silver") and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("On, King, on, you huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit's Station WXYZ whenever Silver galloped off in a cloud of dust. For radio listeners surfeited with news and music and music and news, Shadow, Ranger and Hornet are a welcome relief from the prevailing tedium of the medium. Nor does one need...
Sculptural Typewriters. The Olivetti Corp. of Italy has made beautiful typewriters by dumping the portable from its box and embedding the keys like ranks of tiny birds in a nest. Braun Co. of Germany spends money that it otherwise would plunge into advertising on teaching employees the principles of good design. The effect carries on the Bauhaus tradition in toasters, hair dryers, and transistor radio-phonographs that are perfect plastic sculpture...