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...whirling combination of lilting tunes, vagabonds, sentiment, and flop-house philosophy makes Pipe Dream one of the year's top musicals. It's almost as if Rogers and Hammerstein conspired to confuse the audience, making it nearly impossible to pick one song over another to hum after the show. If you prefer catchy melodies, they are there; if you want the "Some Enchanted Evening" type, they are there too. Although many of the songs could reach the Hit Parade on their own merit, each is smoothly slipped into the stage antics of the Cannery Row characters, taken from Steinbeck...
Since his Green Bay flop, Stevenson has wrestled with his scruples about 90% of parity, and won. In New York last week, he conferred with Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a leader of the farm-state Democrats, who hope to organize a "green uprising" against the G.O.P. at the polls next November. The Midwesterners made it plain that their support depended on Stevenson's acceptance of 90% of parity, and he came through...
...near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came when Ace Conversationalist Mesta tried for an hour to worm some pleasantries from India's Prime Minister Nehru. Sputtered the ordinarily voluble ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I never had such an interview. I talked, talked, talked and got nothing...
...Engine Flop. Westinghouse denied that engine failure was responsible for any of he crashes. But it did admit that it had failed to supply the Navy with the kind of engine the Navy expected. Back in 1948, the Navy gave Westinghouse a contract to perfect a more powerful model of the J40 jet engine, which Westinghouse was then developing. The improved model was to go into the Demon fighters. But Westinghouse ran into a multitude of troubles. It lacked the engineers and experimental facilities to develop the engine which proved full of bugs, e.g., excessive fuel consumption. As a stopgap...
...Westinghouse engine flop crippled more than the Demon program. Five other Navy planes, which had been designed to take Westinghouse engines, were canceled, redesigned or delayed. Resulting loss to the Government: upwards of $100 million. The flop cost Westinghouse all its Government jet contracts, millions in potential profits and a big chunk of prestige...