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...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...Government's Point Four program to develop the economies of backward na tions with private capital has been a flop...
...Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads of Sunset and Vine. The wife: Actress Joan Bennett, 41, beauteous screen grandmother and one of Hollywood's prime exhibits...
Before last week's game with Oregon State, Stanford in victory was more than a sport-page enigma. It was a statistical flop: fifth in the conference in rushing, fourth in total offensive, seventh in ground defense, second in passing. But Stanford had won eight straight games and it was pounding down the track, headed for the Rose Bowl again. Tyro Taylor, 31, who violates every tradition of the coaching trade by predicting victory for his team before every game, shrugs off the inevitable post-game question with, "Damned if I can explain...
...Casablanca, mobs rushed the polling places, and heaved paving blocks. Before election day was over, six Moroccans were dead from police bullets, the polling places were deserted, the election was a flop, and the French moved in Senegalese troops to seal off the native quarter...