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Where were they? Headed for Wilmington? Leaving Cleveland? Circling Miami? Such was the pace of Republican William Scranton's headlong campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination that in the minds of aides and newsmen traveling with him in his chartered Electra, places and events blurred...
...Smith's Agamemnon and Nicholas Pyle's Aegisthus provide fine support for Miss Tolentino, but the only character not overshadowed by her is Cassandra. Laura Esterman's tormented writhing and her cries of anguish are immensely moving; later she reappears as a quieter but equally impressive Electra...
Paul Schmidt and Lynn Milgrim (Orestes and Electra) have nearly half the play's lines; and both are, for the most part, striking. Schmidt must make plausible a wide range of moods--from grieving madness and whispering weakness to hollow posturing and bloody rage. His resonant voice and liquid movements aid him in rendering realistic the avenger-turned-criminal...
Miss Milgrim's wild black hair, marvelously petulant mouth and expressive eyes make her Electra visually right. And aside from first-night nervousness and occasional unsureness with her hands, her performance as the sister who is at once compassionate and brutal matches the effectiveness of her looks...
First a Pan American Boeing 707-139 jet, coming into Kennedy Airport from Puerto Rico with 136 passengers and a crew of nine, overshot its runway and cracked apart in a sea of mud. No one was critically hurt. Then, about ten hours later, an American Airlines Lockheed Electra from Buffalo with 73 passengers and five crew members overshot a runway at La Guardia Air port and ended up in a pile of construction work. The only casualty was a construction worker who was hit by a flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty...