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Ever since capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with the excellent argument that any unfinished movie that has cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared...
Reaching for Spirits. Keeping an iron grip on tempo and rhythm, Klemperer forged a reading so scrupulously attentive to the score that it amounted almost to an analysis of Beethoven's thought. When the old man hobbled from the stage with the help of his heavy cane, the audience had heard Beethoven illuminated as by no other living conductor...
...victim here," he said. "No matter what the country has done to me, it has done something much worse to itself. By continuing to avoid the reality of the black man, it has lost its grip on reality altogether...
...traders in the mid-19th century, the Big Five long turned fat profits with their sugar and pineapple plantations, dominated the economic growth of the islands through intermarriages and interlocking directorates. But with World War II, the 20th century overtook the Big Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, were invading the pineapple market. As a result, Hawaii...
...difficult for ships to pick up transatlantic loads in both directions-and one-way loads are not profitable. At week's end. unofficial negotiations for the release of Bay of Pigs invaders from Castro prisons approached a climax. However welcome, it would do nothing to loosen the Soviet grip on the island...