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Opening on a scene set in an architectural workshop that actually looks more like an aquarium or a behavioral biology lab, The Master Builder encapsulates its actors in boxes and makes them stand on benches or platforms. By the time the master builder himself, Halvard Solness (played by Christopher McCann), comes on stage, the production has made such an obscurely penetrating impression on the audience that McCann takes the opportunity to give the unfolding plot both personality and plausability. He sits and bitches through scenes, denying the younger generation that wants to come into its own while he guiltily broods...
Probably the larger purpose of Khrushchev's threat was to intimidate Finland's Scandinavian neighbors, neutral Sweden and NATO allies Denmark and Norway. So far, the threat has failed, as was demonstrated at another luncheon meeting last week by Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard M. Lange, who traveled to Moscow for talks. In a speech, Lange was publicly berated by Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan for Norway's NATO membership. Angrily, Lange rose to reply, saying in effect that Norway had no intention of withdrawing from NATO: "This is a political reality. The last war taught us that...
...after Nikita's ranting performance, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange abruptly cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi rammed the revised U.S.-Japan treaty through the Japanese Diet. Wrote the London Times: "Once again the conviction has been forced uppermost that where Communist aggression is concerned, U.S. arms are our shield and U.S. steadfastness our foundation...
...busy probing the threat of nuclear war. Politely but firmly, the U.N. orators made clear that they were not interested in the kind of general disarmament proposed by Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 28), unless it was accompanied by controls. "The hard fact," said Norway's Halvard Lange, "seems to be that no government feels it can take the responsibility for starting on the road to disarmament unless it can feel assured, on the basis of an effective control system, that the security of its country is not being jeopardized." Hopefully, Ireland's Foreign Minister Frank Aiken...
Under the impact of these icy blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...