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Natural Resources. "We are going to reverse the policy of no new starts. So vast, so complex and so essential are our natural resources that they cannot be parceled out piecemeal. I think it would be most useful to estab lish for the office of the President himself a council of resource and conservation advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin, develop the resources for 1970 and 1980." When the U.S. builds "a great dam, I don't think the people should...
...Glyndebourne Festival. Said Beecham, majestically speaking of himself in the third person: "Sir Thomas hopes that un der these conditions nothing untoward will happen, and it gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since Sir Thomas himself rose to fame. He is not a spectator's conductor. A solidly built, shock-haired man with a Mozartean profile, he conducts spiritedly but has none...
...Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since I don't know French, I will try to finish in Eng lish to mark our better understanding -'Thank you very much!'" As for Rada, she showed almost a cosmopolitan deviationist's hunger for the exotic attractions of the West: "I want to see your cities and how your people live. I want to see the shows! The museums...
...longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus' disastrous grandstanding in Little Rock last week: "It seems...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...