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State Department officials yesterday joined leaders of the National Student Association in condemning the World Youth Festival, to be held this summer in Moscow, as "another Communist propaganda gimmick...
...projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts bugs from a windshield. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp. the space surgeon, says that this gimmick puts...
Like the vague charge of "vagrancy" in the hands of a determined U.S. cop, South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act provides Premier Johannes Strydom with a handy gimmick for arresting anybody he deems undesirable. The difference is that a hoodlum pulled in by a U.S. cop can usually get free in the morning...
FREE LIFE INSURANCE is gimmick being offered by banks, savings-and-loan associations, to attract new savings accounts. Banks insure life of depositor in amount of his savings, up to $5,000, usually require no medical exam. Some banks absorb premiums, others cut savings interest to make up the premiums...
...soap-opera kind." Monday he gives them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people. Look at them and listen to them. They are part of life...