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Along with its taming of an oaf, Bus Stop chronicles the far more offhand and slightly more underhand amour of the proprietress and the bus driver (Elaine Stritch and Patrick McVey), records the spoutings, slitherings and slumbers of a drunken professor (Anthony Ross). There is also the wide-eyed high-school girl who finds the professor wonderful, there is an unrambunctious cowboy with a guitar, and there is a local sheriff who perhaps stands for law and order in the world as well as on Main Street. In a beautifully paced and harmonized production, every part is well played...
...combat juvenile delinquency. The school principal agreed to one change: he would not announce the meetings publicly beforehand. Said the Roswell Record: "It appears extremely doubtful to us that the attorney general's opinion had good and sufficient grounds . . . We all must make an effort to convince the high-school students that devotion and decency are virtues to be cultivated and admired...
...last week's meeting 200 students, twice as many as ever before, jammed the Roswell high-school theater for Bible reading and prayer...
...Fighting a "socialistic" bill to make Montana teachers eligible for U.S. social-security benefits, State Senator B. Reid Taylor (R.) declared that "children would be better off with high-school graduates teaching them than with [women] who go to a four-year teachers' college determined to remain teachers and old maids the rest of their lives...
Smiling, venturing a word or two of high-school Spanish, and shaking thousands of hands, Vice President Richard Nixon last week turned his tour of Central America into an unaffected show of friendship among backyard neighbors. To the official ceremonials that stretched his days to 16 and 18 hours, he brought an old political campaigner's grinning stamina; to the warmly human situations that arose as he made friends with humble people, he brought good-natured aplomb...