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...those people who sometimes feels like going out and running three miles, you get your chance at 4:30 p.m. Friday, when the cross-country team plays host to the University in the annual all-comers' handicap race...
...deeply concerned about absence in the treaty of a provision for on-site inspection. U.S. ability to detect cheating is "considerable," he noted; yet the Joint Chiefs of Staff hinged their O.K. of the test ban partly on improvement of detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon in our arsenal, a bayonet, unless it has been subjected to exhaustive tests under every conceivable...
First Casualty. Soon, indeed, they have "snazzy" jobs and "spiffy" apartments. Kay is the first to acquire a husband, from whom she may confidently expect "vicarious success." The Group gathers at church to handicap the groom, said to be a genius in the theater. "Not bad," says Pokey, the society girl. Lakey knows better, and Lakey, as always, is right. Kay's husband has sexual shortcomings, and little success. Kay has a breakdown, is sort of tricked by her unsatisfactory consort into Payne Whitney, New York Hospital's great psychiatric clinic...
...addition to the prime handicap of time limitation, the summer school chorus had to overcome many other difficulties. Singing in an open shed required powerful voices and assurance of one's own part. To achieve this, Miss Hiatt asked the members to practice special breathing methods and mild calisthenics. The chorus also practiced singing while sitting in the audience section of Paine Hall. This simulated the accoustics of the Tanglewood shed, where sound is only projected outwards, making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated...
...addition to these obstacles the play has the further handicap of a very overworked, highly unbelievable first act which brings together both divorced couples with predictable, semi-slapstick entrances that would stand out as cliches in a TV family situation comedy. Not until the end of the act, when Cynthia Karslake (Joanne Hamlin) breaks down in hysterical tears after being forced to face her former husband, is any sense of reality injected, and this shot is so unexpected it is startling From there on, at least to the last scene, the show is reasonably good entertainment and often very funny...