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...been four months since the gaudy Bulganin-Khrushchev bandwagon bounced across South Asia, and the time had come to take a close look at the lingering effects of the Big Red Circus, to reaffirm alliances and to rebuild friend ships. Off to Pakistan and India last week flew U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
Three-Ring Circus. In his capacity as mahout of the Republican elephant, Len Hall has one of the most sensitive jobs in politics. As G.O.P. chairman, Hall is the producer of a circus with three rings: the National Committee, which handles the presidential and vice presidential campaigns and maps out overall party strategy, and its two auxiliaries on Capitol Hill, the Senate and House Campaign Committees, which concentrate on local congressional campaigns...
What the critics and public alike were cheering about was not so clear. Both of Buffet's shows last week were built around the single theme, "The Circus." The pictures are all the same unmixed Buffet of morbid subject and individualistic craftsmanship: a rapid, flat, angular style carried out in monotonous grey tones accentuated with blue, dull olive and bilious yellow. The canvases displayed shabby acrobats, gaunt and ugly women performers, emaciated jugglers and grim freaks (see cut). Curiously, all the figures had the same sad features-Buffet...
Taken aback, Roberts replied: "I am but a child of God." But the press pounced on him. SALVATION CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN, headlined one paper. The national weekly Truth called him "at best a big blabbermouth." Sydney's Daily Telegraph demanded that he be "sent packing." Reporters discovered that Roberts had checked in at Sydney's swanky Glen Ascham Hotel under an assumed name. Said Roberts: "Christ has no objection to prosperity...
...admixture of comedy and farce, which destroys utterly the few intelligent, sophisticated bits, probably can be blamed on the cast. Director John Gerstad has taken a salon comedy and turned it into a circus-tent shriek show. Practically every player, with the exception of Tom Helmore, the seductive, Northern journalist, over-acts...