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...Schulman's considered opinion last week became the basis of a heated debate in U.N.'s high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet...
With the exception of Miss Raphaelson and Andrews, the lead performers also appeared in the HTW's presentation of "Troilus and Cressida" last winter. Kilty played Ulysses, David played the part of Pandarus, Fletcher was Hector, and Miss Farrand played Cressida...
...Slacks. At an even greater rate, Argentines were pouring into Mar del Plata, the Atlantic City of the south. With 300,000 vacationists jamming its villas and 671 hotels, it had become for the season Argentina's third city. The renowned Hector y Su Jazz played nightly to capacity crowds at the world's largest casino. Beachgoers dined on steaks two inches thick, tangoed to a new tune called El Cafetin de Buenos Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much...
Veteran reporters demanded proof. Miel Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...
Excellent performances upheld the "Honour" of Troy. Robert Fletcher was impressive, commanding, and noble as Hector, the pillar of Troy, and the only admirable character in the play...