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...Like Caesar's Gaul, the platform is divided into three principal parts: Defense & Foreign Policy. The essential goal of foreign policy, says the platform is "an enduring peace in which the universal values of human dignity, truth and justice under law are finally secured for all men everywhere on earth" - a more elaborate statement of President Eisenhower's "peace with justice." As aids to the cause of peace, the platform proposes more foreign economic aid, expanded world trade (with a cryptic promise of "international agreements to assure . . . fair labor standards to protect our own workers"), liberalized immigration policies...
...aware of the suspicious attitude of the profession generally, they have been even more conservative than the British in selection of cases. But they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic" and are confident that the suction cup is worth a wider trial...
...Bard. All the actors, British and American, like their predecessors, are involved in the attempts of their age to press Shakespeare into a contemporary mold. Orson Welles dressed his Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford...
...baiting has no ceiling or cellar. The daily Combate is currently charging that the Chilean earthquakes were caused by U.S. underground nuclear explosions. Radio Mambi crows over the U-2 episode: "Any day now, His Majesty Caesar Au gustus Eisenhower I may lose his trousers." In a third-grade Havana classroom last week, when the teacher asked what happened on Feb. 15, 1898. a tiny girl shot back the answer: "The United States blew up the Maine so they could intervene in Cuba." The rest of the "correct" answer: "And most of the crew members were Negroes...
Variety-World of Show Biz (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). With his guests, Chita Rivera, and Gene Barry, Sid Caesar parodies Bat Masterson, silent films and nightclub poetry readings...