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...appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic technician of his time. When, after long years in the shadow of the great Churchill, Eden became Prime Minister in 1955, he led the Tories to an electoral victory which tripled their majority in the House. Polls showed his popularity higher than Churchill's, and all men wished him well...
...married a sister of Lord Salisbury, a member of the great Cecil family who have been advisers and ministers to Britain's Kings since the first Elizabeth. Through these connections, Macmillan is related to at least 200 members of the ruling class-in Commons, the Lords, and the higher reaches of the civil and foreign services...
...alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer buying and business spending (expected to rise another 10% in 1957 first quarter) continued to mount, few believed that the price line could be held...
What with the cold and the snow and the inexorable approach of exams, "a person could develop a cold," as apparently a number have. Nevertheless they say that every cloud has a silver lining. For instance, President Jordan has announced that Radcliffe girls are making higher marks than ever. And some nuclear physicists at Columbia have discovered for the first time that it is possible to distinguish between a reflection and the real thing, or to tell one's right hand from his left, or something of that kind. At any rate, it's reassuring to know that the physical...
...Negro cast is an actor of unsurpassed stature. I am not in a position to compare Mantan Moreland with Bert Lahr, who played Estragon in the original American production, but it is difficult to imagine any performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount of dignity, and Rex Ingram makes a beautifully fearsome and pathetic Pozzo. As for Lucky, the part demands a pantomimist, and in Geoffrey Holder it has found a master of this form. Herbert Berghof, who also directed...