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Last week two whopping gifts brought the center a trombone-length nearer reality. From Socialite Art Patron Mrs. Vivian Allen (daughter of Department-Store Tycoon Joseph Shoenberg, one of the founders of the May Co.) came $3,000,000, to be used on a 1,200-seat repertory theater. For the general fund covering construction expenses, one member of the Philharmonic's board of directors anonymously kicked in $500,000. Total gifts so far: $28,550,000, largely from the Ford, Rockefeller and Avalon Foundations. Still needed...
...actors are as littleknown as almost any plays produced at Harvard this year: there is only one copy of them in English at Widener, and the card catalogue at Lamont never heard of them. They are not bad plays, exactly, but we have sources of mild, spasmodically funny comedy nearer home, and it is no wonder that only the diligence of Eric Bentley has brought them to American attention...
...segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer and nearer to his goal of a third term, nobody seriously tried to put Little Rock back together again...
Edward Teller shares the desire for peace, but he doubts whether halting tests would bring it any nearer. He is convinced that the Russians would evade any no-test or disarmament agreement, unilateral or otherwise, and that absolutely foolproof detection of tests is impossible. On this point he is apparently more skeptical than President Eisenhower's scientific advisers. Said the President at his press conference last week: While there is "a little field for uncertainty," it should be possible, with "proper inspectional facilities," to detect "any sizable test...
...change does not mean a retreat from state control. In enlarging the collectives and assigning them their own machinery, Khrushchev is actually making them more like the big state farms, the "factories on the land," which he favors as cheaper producers of foodstuffs. Thus he brings nearer the day when all Russia's crops can be tilled and harvested by workers paid by the hour like any other factory hands...