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Multiple Choice. McElroy at first said that his deputy's death would have no effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
...Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing on progress of the Air Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited with his scientific and administrative background and his six years of Defense Department experience...
...manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made out of old packing-crates. The folkish songs composed (or, sometimes, borrowed) by Caldwell Titcomb, and sung mostly by Johanna Linch, are also highly atmospheric. These are the familiar devices of Brecht's "Epic Theatre" staging...
...Committee of 21"-delegates from the U.S. and its 20 neighbor republics of the hemisphere-met in Buenos Aires last week to talk once again of Latin American economic development. To the U.S., the Latin American spokesmen said in effect: The gulf between your standard of living and ours is so broad that it threatens liberty and democracy in our countries. The U.S. reply: We deplore the gap, and last year sent $736 million in aid to close it. But you must help by showing some of the initiative that enabled our 13 original colonies to build from poverty...
...sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with 40 acres of land, as the nucleus of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Five years ago her son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,* donated $250,000 to build the new gallery, which in effect transforms the old center into the major museum his mother had envisioned-a place, said son Whitney, "where you will see Western history at its best...