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...Firebugs. Swiss Dramatist Max Frisch dropped a couple of tons of irony on the New York theater last week, but the only one who got crushed was the playwright. Advance fanfare had it that Frisch, highly regarded and much produced in Europe, was the equal of his fellow countryman Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit). Rarely has anticipation been so swiftly disabused...
...curtain time last week, Italian opera fans had promised to fill the theater and boo Von Karajan right off the podium. Tenor Gianni Raimondi, who was hired to sing the role, was getting threatening phone calls for betraying his countryman. Said Di Stefano: "I'm seriously thinking of going to live in Katanga, where they are more civilized...
Another important feature of the campaign was the distribution of literature informing voters of the work of SNCC. Peter Countryman, executive director of the Northern Student Movement, called this the most important aspect of the project...
...titles together. But this season he has been all but unbeatable. He won the Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swiss championships, commenced his pursuit of the slam with victories over Emerson in Australia and France. In July he won at Wimbledon with such astonishing ferocity that Martin Mulligan, another countryman whom he dispatched in barely 53 minutes, gasped: "I must have offended him." By the time he got to Forest Hills, says Laver, "I was so nervous I could hear my knees knocking all right, and the strain may have affected my game a little...
...criticism against the New Testament, but Driver defends the effort to produce a new Bible. "The job has to be redone every 100 years or so," he says. "You've got to meet the speech of that generation. What we have to do is to persuade the back-countryman that, beautiful as it is, the old version is often nonsense...