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...under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet President, Brother Hector. Last year, when Trujillo sensed growing resistance, he removed Hector and installed Balaguer to stage a "democratization" of the tight little island fief...
...Mickey Mantle hit his 48th. to give the New York Yankees 193 for the season, tying the American League team record that the Yankees set last year. Teammates Moose Skowron and Hector Lopez promptly hit two more homers to set a new record. With a month to go, the Yankees seem certain to better the major league mark of 221 home runs. CJ The Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles sent six home runs sailing out of the Angels' Wrigley Field, to push the season's total in the West Coast bandbox to 204. Previous American League record...
...Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan War had turned into the U.S. Civil War, and before the play was over, muskets banged, cannon boomed, and that old states-righter, Hector, lost his bridgework to six Greco-Yankee bayonets...
Acted woodenly and with Pat Hingle as Hector, Jessica Tandy as Cassandra, and Kim Hunter as Helen, the Stratford production gives audiences the feeling that they are watching The Red Badge of Courage with Shakespeare dubbed into the sound track. Chuck wagon, gunfire, sounding of taps-it is minor ingeniousness at the expense of genius. In the end, the Civil War trick seems merely a capitalization on the war's 100th anniversary fever, and in 1976 Troilus will probably be done again at Stratford set at Valley Forge...
...final touch of satire is a ripenorting skirmish in shoot-em-up Western style, with rifles cracking and artillery bombarding, with the Southern mansion blown to bits before our very eyes, and with Thersites treacherously shot dead in the back (as an echo of the earlier slaying of Hector...