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...surrenders to the principle which makes a city a museum piece and drains vitality from it ... Was the Palazzo Vendramini forbidden because, in style, it did not resemble the Ca d'Oro? Was the Church of Santa Maria della Salute forbidden because it did not resemble San Marco...
Spurred by the sympathetic response of the new administration, the Harvard College Theatre Committee last winter made the first efforts to crystallize undergraduate opinion into active support. The Committee's planned benefit production of O'Neil's Marco Millions to spearhead a renewed drive this spring shows just how strong this support has grown. Its magnitude is shown by the number and diversity of the many other College groups besides the Dramatic Club that have agreed to help. The play will undoubtedly add to the funds already accumulated, but this is not its most valuable contribution. If it will convince...
...American ne'er-do-well (Humphrey Bogart) is bound for British East Africa with his Italian wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and four "business associates" (Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus...
Some of San Francisco's best financial brains are at work on the opera's board of directors. Among them: Utilities Executive Robert Watt Miller, Investment Banker Charles R. Blyth, Banker William W. Crocker, Broker Marco Hellman, Publisher (San Francisco Chronicle) George Cameron, Paper Magnate J. D. Zellerbach. These men have developed a practical method for handling annual deficits : holders of top-price season tickets (931 this year) pledge $50 each, get charged on a pro rata basis when the season's deficit is added up (last year: a nearly nominal $36,000). Cost of each year...
Expendable is the word for the secretary general of Venezuela's Acción Democrática, the underground opposition to the dictatorship of Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez. A.D.'s field commander, who directs espionage in government offices and keeps the government jumpy with incessant propaganda and occasional bombings, is hunted day and night, seldom sleeps twice in the same place. Within the last nine months, one A.D. chief was killed, another died in prison, and a third was jailed. Last week the fourth, a 35-year-old economist named Antonio Pinto Salinas...