Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving slowly at first, warms and speeds up as the play progresses. The play's farrago of dramatic styles, songs, dances and persons is difficult to harmonize, but the loosely knit structure of the play is bound into a tightly cohesive knot, creating a final fluidity. Leads and choruses maintain the spritely and varying rhythms of American life throughout. The same persons flying-shuttled in and out of different roles, weaving the loom of America. Robert Dargie as Uncle Sam at the piano punctuates the performance with robust renditions of American songs, while guitars, banjos, and violins mute the strains...
However, Giraudoux fails to maintain a balance between ideas and spicy French sex, and the play becomes bikini. Interspersed with rationalistic salvos are a crescendo of kisses, lovers entwined like vine leaves on a Greek frieze and racy gods until the romp is reduced to a gala Gallic gaiety and the comedy verges on hedonism. Frankly, three hours of the bed become boring...
...cuts aroused neither joy nor grave misgivings among service planners. U.S. muscle, they agreed, will suffer little. The Army will come down from 1,000,000 to 950,000, but will keep its 17 authorized divisions; the Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850,000, will maintain combat units at authorized size, keep the Marines at three divisions; the Air Force, from 925,000 to 900,000, will make no cuts in combat outfits. One probable overall effect: a further cutback in draft calls...
Today the Primavera community has grown to some 700 members through new births and newcomers, many drawn from the U.S. They live in three villages, successfully carry on cattle ranching, lumbering, agriculture and woodworking crafts. They maintain a hospital with 24 beds and treat 10,000 Paraguayans a year...
...other factors account for the intensity of Nasser's anti-Israeli campaign, Allon said. One is the natural desire to gain revenge for the horrendous losses the Eyyptians have sustained, both in the 1948 war and in the more recent Sinai campaign. Second, Nasser, like the other Arab rulers, maintain their personal positions only by dictatorial methods. They earnestly desire, said Allon, to destroy Israel, "this little show window of parliamentary democracy...