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...first light the army was firmly in control of its own barracks, the Atlantic harbors, the airports, the radio and television stations and even the national bank. Though a few companies of the paramilitary National Republican Guard held out, together with the detested D.G.S. (Direcção Geral de Segurança) secret police, the army was clearly superior. "We have all the tanks, and we have the military experience we learned in Africa," said one rebel officer with casual contempt. "The police and the National Republican Guard have only a few obsolete armored vehicles...
October 23: The move to elect an opposition slate to the Coop Board of Directors failed when too few people showed up at the general election meeting. Because only 950 Coop members--500 short of the required quorum--came to the meeting, the stock holder-nominated slate of Direc...from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies." The House had already approved the bill...
...greater demands of score. In a reversal of precedence, music is now only one of many elements that contribute to the impact of dance, which is a matter of sight and sound as well as movement. In effect, the choreographer has become the Jack-of-all-arts-the direc tor of a new theatrical form that has a total design for total involvement...
...prose pieces or plays, the best element in Jean Kerr's humor is that it often bridges traditionally alien settings, brings the muddy-carpeted world of school lunches and commuter trains into incon gruous collision with the slick panoplies of Manhattan. It works in both direc tions. Writing about a third-grade play at a Larchmont school, she notes certain uneven spots that "could have been cleaned up if they had taken the show to New Rochelle for a couple of weeks." Conversely, one of the biggest laughs in Mary, Mary comes when the movie actor prepares to take...
After the war, Camus spent more than a decade as "France's best assistant direc tor" before he made it on his own with Black Orpheus. Now, with the completion of Pioneers, it has occurred to him somehow that love should be the great theme of his life, and he is swept away on plans to produce an unending series of love films-carnal and spiritual, full-length and short-for TV. straight cinema, schoolrooms, garden clubs, anyone who wants to hear the gospel of human affection and tenderness. Says he: "I will become the colossus of love...