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Reap the Wild Winds (Stuart McKay and his Woods; Victor). A happy nonet, basically a saxophone quartet plus rhythm section, but more likely to be heard playing bassoon, English horn, flute, clarinet, oboe, with a discreet French horn on hand as well. Leader McKay plays nifty bassoon, fast and, when necessary, dirty. The rest of the crew has shrieking fun with sound effects (What a Way to Run a Railroad!}, and swinging fun with Those That Live by the Swordfish Die by the Sword fish...
...like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime. For when you come right down to it, we've made a dreadful botch of sex right here...
...Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters to talk over the past and future, he could hardly find a more discreet door through the Iron Curtain than Switzerland. Last week, inevitably, Arbenz headed that way. In Mexico, where the former President has been living, there was speculation that when his official three-month "leave from exile" expired, Arbenz would be back primed with money and promises of Communist guns for a try at regaining...
...Aida, the eyes have it. Lest any of the plot be lost between the music and the Italian language, a discreet narrator explains each scene before it starts. Aida (Sophia Loren) is a slant-eyed, dusky-skinned, full-lipped Ethiopian slave girl in the Egyptian court. She and the stone-faced princess (Lois Maxwell) are in love with a weak-mouthed warrior named Radames (Luciano della Marra). Radames is sent off to trounce the Ethiopians and is rewarded, all against his will, with the hand of the princess. Torn between love and guilt, he slips Aida a top-secret battle...
...then, Massachusetts has never demanded frankness from its candidates. There are so many significant ethnic groups that a politician must always consider that what he says may turn one of them against him. Often, he will find security in discreet silence. Thus, because of the large Irish and other Catholic votes in the Boston area, neither Saltonstall nor Furcolo has dared to mention McCarthy in his campaign...