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Last week CAT announced that it was suspending all international passenger flights after the airline's only jet, a leased Boeing 727, nosed into a tea plantation near Taipei, killing 21 of the 63 persons aboard (among the survivors: CAT's Chief Pilot Stuart E. Dew, 46, who served as General George Marshall's personal pilot during his China mission in 1946). Though the suspension was said to be temporary, everyone's best guess was that it probably meant CAT's death...
...Boston ballet was remodeled by Virginia Williams. Too often the result is painfully disconnected, sliding over the more intense moments in the score with a frivolous pat-de-chat and dwelling on the lighter moments in a tight pirouette. This was especially true in the dance of the Dew Drop Fairy, one of the two major roles in the ballet. Nevertheless, June Perry by far outshone the rest of the Boston Company in that role and stood up well against the sugar plum fairy of guest performer Violet Verdy, one of this country's best ballerinas. These two, along with...
Under Geneen, the company developed the Strategic Air Command's control switching network, maintains Washington's "hot line" to MOSCOW, operates the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) system. It even drew on its overall management know-how to pick up the thankless task of running the federal Job Corps project at Camp Kilmer, which was bound to be controversial if only because residents of surrounding New Jersey communities did not want a conclave of so-called juvenile delinquents in their midst. After a noisy start, the camp has gone out of the headlines, and even...
Among her most delirious scenes in A Thousand Clowns was an epiphany in which she wondered if she was really an asocial social worker. "I hate Raymond Led-better," she bawled, "and he's only nine years old." The dew-behind-the-ears charm and the sobs of self-reproach with which she delivered the line inevitably broke up the house...
...single flow'r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose; Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet- One perfect rose...