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Last week the House of Representatives defeated the bill for Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood after a loud-voiced, low-swinging debate. Loudest and lowest was New York's Republican Representative John Pillion, who discovered that anti-Communism can be used to justify almost any political action...
...writing about Seventh Heaven has an almost insoluble problem, since everything in the show is so bad that his review is almost bound to collapse into a dreary recitation of failures. I can think of only one positive comment: this last musical of the current season is probably the loudest in recent years. Unfortunately, volume is a questionable substitute for quality, especially when there is little of value in the music, the book, or the acting of the play...
Gronchi (pronounced gronc-key) is a Christian Democrat. But the loudest cheers came from the Communists and their fellow-traveling allies, Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Mario Scelba. the Christian Democratic Premier, stood in glum silence. He and Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani had done everything in their power to prevent the election of their fellow Christian Democrat. Gronchi's victory was a humiliating defeat for Scelba's shaky four-party coalition of the center; it was an open defiance of Fanfani's personal leadership of the big Christian Democratic Party, which has firmly guided Italy into...
Ballet is often at its best when it is (intentionally) funny. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where the loudest laughter is usually confined to Sherry's Bar, the visiting Ballet Theater last week provoked some grandiose yacks...
...coexistence." Then the Communists pushed the well-intentioned to the back of the stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part of China just as Long Island is a part of the U.S.," he said...