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...chariot race. He first earned wide recognition on the West End stage as the leering General St. Pé in Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, and on Broadway as Thomas Wolfe's father in Look Homeward, Angel. Last year, doing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle in London, he nearly deprived the world of his future services when, during the hanging scene, he slipped off the box he was standing on and hanged himself in full view of the audience. After gurgling and turning black, he passed out. The curtain fell. He was cut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Squire Hugh | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Harvard's next game is at Williams Saturday night. The Ephs are tough, but if the New Breed continues to play as they have so far this season, they should chalk up victory number four

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Tops Huskies; Inman, Williams Shine | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

Rapid-American's boss is still a crafty operator who dazzles potential investors with complicated "chalk talks" in which he sketches his financial plans on a blackboard. He often puts off opponents during negotiations by conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Caught in the Rapids | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Channeling under the Streak | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...past, the say has always been resoundingly negative. Though Queen Victoria liked the notion of a tunnel as a potential cure for her seasickness, she found it "very objectionable" in principle. In the 1880s, when an early tunnel project actually bored two miles into the chalk near Dover, the Sunday Times worried that "We should have an amount of fraternizing between the discontented denizens of the great cities . . . which would yield very unsatisfactory results on this side of the Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Channeling under the Streak | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

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