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...Carol (West Side Story) Lawrence and Howard (Kiss Me Kate) Keel. The 19th century high jinks between a New Orleans mulatto and a Montana buccaneer bent on robbing some robber barons is "rich in production," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, "fortunate in its leads, thin in story." The Bulletin was briefer: "Moby Dick in a bathtub...
...Force Base, Maryland, in an open car accompanied by Vice President Nixon and Mrs. Khrushchev, who was carrying an enormous bunch of red roses. And Khrushchev replied to Nixon's warm bon voyage with a briefer farewell address that was perhaps his most effective statement in the U.S. Said Nikita Khrushchev: "As a result of the useful talks we had with President Eisenhower, we came to the agreement that all of the pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality...
...upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans are rapidly covering more people with more dollars. The Federal Reserve Board has learned about increasing or cutting the money supply to help control the economy...
...indebted to him everyone in their profession was. He had moved that the members of the department subscribe the necessary funds for a portrait and the shelf. Then he had put his hand through his thin hair and sat down; Ford got up next, made a similar but even briefer speech, seconded the motion, smiled at Hall, and sat down. It was evident they had planned the motion and seconding. A murmur had gone through the twenty-five members of the department, a part of it tense and whispered. Briggs, an old hand at such meetings, sensed a difficult situation...
...most notable achievement is a ballad called Boston, one of Tom Lehrer's briefer efforts; it is a study of the subway system, which, for all its merits, will never displace the classic Charley...