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...startling sign, it is only because he believes that he needs a new image. By insisting that he was never an extremist on either side ("I am not a captive of any extremists of any viewpoint"), he is countering the welter of criticism with considerable success. He stands an excel lent chance of winning a majority in next week's primary or, if not then, in a runoff election that would probably follow. Old Tiger Faubus may have lost his teeth, but in Arkansas there seems to be no lion in the streets strong enough to threaten him seriously...
...only previous Shakespearean experience was as Portia and Viola. I admire her when she sticks to the limited bailiwick in which she can excel. But as a Shakespearean she is a nullity. She is often termed the doyenne of American actresses; but her current gambol earns her no better title than Helen...
Last fall Jean went to work with 33 classmates who were already five to seven years ahead of him in France's dead-earnest schooling. In six months, Jean did five years of work in humanities and six years in science - earning good to excel lent grades all the way. In addition to formal school, Jean also studies for six hours a day with five university professors. Next fall he plans to enter Lyons' National Institute of Applied Sciences to become an engineer, though he refuses to be pigeonholed too soon. "I am interested in everything...
NAMED at 44 as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White has a past that would make Frank Merriwell look like a drudge. It was with an eye to that record that President Kennedy said, in announcing White's appointment: "He has excelled in everything he has attempted -and I know that he will excel on the highest court in the land." White grew up in Wellington, a farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five...
...rude male force. In his direction, despite a tendency to get cute with the camera, Sidney Lumet often achieves a noble seriousness that makes the drama seem almost a rite-as is only appropriate: classic tragedy was the Dionysian counterpart of the Christian Mass. The actors without exception excel, but Actor Vallone beggars comparison. He is the gritty essence of stevedore. He looks like one of Michelangelo's Captives, half man. half rock...