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Last week, fresh from a flop series of speeches in Wisconsin, where he tried to lop away at the neck of one of his bitterest foes. Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa. as outwardly confident as the driver of a 14-wheel rig, swaggered into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity: 18,000) for a rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum...
...been talking about pay-as-you-see TV for years, but the talk brought more wind than action. The one real experiment at Bartlesville, Okla., in 1957 was a flop, and since then everyone has been too worried about a fight with the TV networks to try again. Last week Paramount Pictures Corp., which has spent more than $8,000,000 to perfect the system since 1951, took its enterprising idea to a more hospitable climate: Canada. Last week in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke,* 1,000 TV-owning families could sit back and see a first-run movie...
...Lagos, Mboya's meeting drew union leaders from 29 countries. Nkrumah's affair was a flop, with officially accredited delegates only from Guinea, Morocco and the United Arab Republic. "I have no quarrel with Nkrumah," Mboya insisted last week, but it was no secret that he strongly dislikes the way Nkrumah runs his unions, i.e., as a government department and as instruments of government power. Apparently, most other African labor officials feel the same way. Delegates representing Nigeria, the Belgian Congo, the French territories and many other parts of Africa voted overwhelmingly at Lagos to form...
Delightful at its best and generally fun, Fiorello! does have its weaknesses: a few flop songs and scenes, and a less lively second act. The show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...
Edsel (obs.). The wrong car in the wrong place at the wrong time. See BUSINESS, The $250 Million Flop...