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Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
Click-Click. On the night of June 6, 1944, Major General Taylor became the first American general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen...
...instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...
embassy residence in Vienna. Out of the residence door, like a broncobuster sprung from his chute, bounded John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He dashed down the steps to meet his bald, fat guest. "How are you?" he asked smilingly. "I'm glad to see you." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev grinned politely and shook Kennedy's hand. Thus, one cold, wet day last week, the youthful leader of the Western alliance greeted the tough leader of world Communism...
...capsule descended, swinging widely on its chute, and the choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...