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...plane looks like a bigger, burlier version of Convair's supersonic F-102 jet fighter interceptor: like the F-102, it has a needle-nosed, coke-bottle fuselage with sharply swept delta wings and high, shark's-fin tail. The Hustler appears to be about 100 ft. long 60 ft. from wingtip to wingtip, roughly comparable to the current Air Force standby, Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber. But where the B-47 has six General Electric J47 (5,800 lbs. of thrust) engines, Convair's new B58 gets its supersonic hustle from only...
...Getting Married and Candida, is not a great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
...took some friends to Au Bec Fin, an excellent French restaurant, and a four-course luncheon cost less than $1 a person," the wife of a U.S. businessman who lives in Buenos Aires reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners...
...Fin de Siecle Writing...
Actually, The Count At Harvard is an attempt to apply the slick amoralism of the fin de siecle approach to a story about a Harvard man. Roger Norris, alias the "Count," is a suave, charming n'er-do-well who drops Wilde-like epigrams on every possible occasion. He is lightly cynical about everything, except for one brief time when he meets a "good," serious and proper girl. She, however, rejects his suit, because the Count is not a very good security risk. The Count does not let this overly effect him, and returns to his flippant outlook. The most...