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...three actors have to bear the brunt of this sudden change in the play's rhythm and tone. On the whole they do a good job, especially Skip Ascheim as the perplexed, somewhat farshimmelt Sidney. James Barcz is vaguely English and properly irritable as Walter. He has the misfortune to have to deliver the final blood-and thunder speech, which is totally out of keeping with the character he builds up. Pam King, a black-haired girl with a voluptuous figure, plays Candy a bit too sullenly, though she occasionally is the joyous little animal she should...
...delay and months of suspense, the U.S. has all but decided to enter belatedly the race to build a supersonic jetliner. A special Cabinet committee headed by Vice President Johnson will shortly send to the White House a long-awaited report strongly recommending that the Government bear the financial brunt of developing the costly plane, which will be able to fly from coast-to-coast in less than two hours and from New York to Paris in less than three. President Kennedy is expected to ask Congress for an appropriation to get the whole thing started. Congress, already balky about...
...Many people . . . sensing the weight of opposition against Britain, thought privately that peace on any terms that did not offer actual humiliation was preferable to taking the brunt of the ferocious German assaults that would presumably grow worse...
...areas and greater business opportunities elsewhere, the youth of the city is in flight. It is hoped that the new community emerging from the rubble of the Belt Route construction will help attract this younger group back to the area. Unfortunately, the older residents will have to bear the brunt of change. There is no indication yet that the state will help in any way to ease the pains involved...
...General Electric Co.'s executive suite, which bore the brunt of the penalties in the Justice Department's electrical-industry price-fixing victory, there was more unwelcome news last week. G.E. Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, 60, announced his resignation as chairman of the 60-man Business Advisory Council, the business community's liaison with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Cordiner's explanation: he will need to give all his time to G.E., since he is taking over the duties of Robert Paxton, 59, who resigned last week, for reasons of ill health, as G.E. president...