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...censorship. Although the deviate references in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) were cooled down considerably for the screen, two years later his Suddenly Last Summer was filmed with explicit references to pederasty. In the early '60s, the central characters in both Advise and Consent and The Best Man had their political careers ruined by past homosexual experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt homosexual overtones from the characters of Dick and Perry in In Cold...
...campus disorder. "It represents an assault on rationality in politics, with its dismissal of free discussion and its conviction that violence will mystically generate policy and program. If men or mechanisms were infallible, there would be no need for persuasion; but because they are not, the discipline of consent is indispensable to civilized society...
...still to tackle a host of other issues, most importantly A.T. & T.'s relations with Western Electric, the nation's eleventh biggest manufacturing company. Though Bell avoided divestiture of Western Electric on antitrust grounds through a 1956 consent decree with the Justice Department, other questions are being raised about the subsidiary, which manufactures almost all Bell System equipment. Critics charge that Bell deliberately pays inflated Western prices in order to increase the Bell System rate base by raising the value of its plant. A.T. & T. denies this, pointing to Western's slim (4.1% last year) margin...
...Line? Last year Daly switched his own line to take charge of the Voice of America. Things hummed along mellifluously until Daly left last April for a six-week Asian tour, only to learn on his return that one of his senior officials had been removed without his consent by Leonard H. Marks, director of the parent United States Information Agency. Daly abruptly announced that he would quit the next day. In reply, Marks struck a regretful note in a warm "Dear lohn" letter, praising Daly for his "dedication and adherence to the highest standards of program integrity...
...they once had a colt named Night Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine...