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...band of genuinely old troupers Raymond Walburn (78), Ernest Truex (75), Madge Kennedy (75), and Ethel Griffies (87), plus Ingénue Heidi Murray (17), handle with finesse lines that they ought scarcely to have touched. As Mrs. Lord, Ruth Gordon (69) relies on her trademarks rather than her talents, notably a nasally barbaric yawp of a voice that would have stopped Genghis Khan in his Asiatic steppes. Woman is her lost labor of self-love...
...Angeles, seared by the racial violence that threatens nearly every city, was struggling to define and remedy the wrongs that drove its Negroes to savagery last month. In Detroit, where there are long, rancorous memories of racial friction, a young, vigorous mayor who was renominated last week is work ing imaginatively to make a happier and more beautiful city for all its people. New Orleans, the Crescent City that habitually bubbles like a Jeroboam of Mumm, struggled agonizingly back from the flat despair sowed by Hurricane Betsy. And in New York, after years of soul-deadening drift, the voters leaned...
Perhaps it was because he had noth ing new to say. He spoke grandly of attacking the "imperialists" with a "Djakarta-Pnompenh-Hanoi, Peking-Pyongyang axis," which sounds like an airline route but is nothing more than a dream that he has often toyed with in the past. The speech confirmed continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize...
...equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission by empowering the central bank to discipline the market, allows new brokers to enter the previously closed exchange, requires firms trading on the market to publish regular and reliable financial statements, and cuts dividend taxes to 25% . Schooled in Scandal. Besides reform ing the chaotic stock market, the law will also rid Brazil by 1967 of its greatest source of recent financial scandals: the so-called parallel market, which deals in short-term, high-yield (up to 6% a month) promissory notes backed only by the reputation of the companies that issue them...
...stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington...