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...unprecedented opportunities-and it is Thornton's job to see that Litton takes advantage of the opportunities. Many men in both business and Government consider Thornton to be the best executive in the U.S. today. Yet his gifts are not always on display, and in many ways the low-key Texan does not fit the usual conception of a dynamic manager at work in an exciting industry...
After the emotional welcome in Germany and the sentimental flood in Ireland, the rest of the President's European journey was mixed. He met with Harold Macmillan for a day of low-key talks at the British Prime Minister's country home near Brighton, and they reached an essentially negative agreement: the projected multilateral NATO nuclear force would be allowed to die. In Italy, the President's reception, the day after Pope Paul's coronation, was something like Grand Rapids on a rainy day. Rome's blase millions stayed away in droves. Overeager Italian security...
Ybor City is old Cubatown in Tampa, Fla., where Cuban cigarmakers and their families have lived for generations. In this first novel, Florida-born Jose Yglesias, 43, paints a low-key Street Scene that is more fit for play-acting than reading, but his descriptions of Cuban-American family life in 1958 contain much that is touching...
...track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after a loveless weekend affair, chooses the less convenient road. Faced with the insinuating soft sell of an abortionist...
Last week, as they marked their country's 1,000th anniversary, the solid, easygoing Luxembourgeois looked forward to a long summer of low-key celebration, including a dog show, endless wine festivals, an international stamp exposition, and a visit by two planeloads of kinfolk from Chicago, which is said to boast more Luxembourgeois than Luxembourg (pop. 320,000).* The mystery is why they ever left in the first place...