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...Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) requires a group of pop-music experts, e.g., Johnnie Ray, Jack Haley, Harry James, to estimate the hit potentials of new records. The proceedings are dominated by Disk Jockey Peter Potter, whose special brand of sugary archness is sometimes topped by the coy commercials for Hazel Bishop lipstick...
...than acquits himself in the evening's second play. His eulogy of the chaste unicorn is particularly charming. The most skillful performance of the evening is Bronias Sielewicz' Decima, the actress who becomes queen when the real queen flees an attacking mob. Graceful in her movements, she is alternately coy and contemptuous as the part demands...
...Franco government, for its part, did not like to surrender sovereignty over any of its own military bases. Also, Spain hoped to raise the aid ante by playing coy. (Franco's hope: that the U.S. would outfit all Spain's armed forces, and re-equip the transportation system, in return for the base rights.) Complained a Spanish diplomat: "You Americans outfit the rest of the world with wardrobes, but for us you have only a toothbrush...
Sage Disbelief. In this best of all possible worlds, Frut is frustrated only by his coy fiancée, who keeps stalling him off despite his stirring performances of the mating dance. Restless, he wanders to the edge of the tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before. A huge, two-legged, two-armed Thing not only picks Frut up and then drops him, but the Thing draws on the ground with a stick, making those mysterious signs-a heart pierced by an arrow-the origin of which even the Sages of the tableland are hard...
Averell Harriman might have been playing coy and waiting for the New York Democrats to draft him; on the other hand, he may be betting on a Stevenson victory and an appointment as Secretary of State. In any case, by sitting back and letting John Cashmore snatch the senatorial nomination, Harriman assured Irving M. Ives, the incumbent, of a victory. For, during the past six years, Ives, a strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have...