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...when, unwittingly adding a word to the language, he called for "not nostrums but normalcy." That was a static, isolationist normalcy; 1957's is a capacity for tolerating crisis and change. With hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard in 1954 when Studebaker stalled and Singer (sewing machines) pulled out. and a committee of South...
Finding some loose insulation around a ventilator outside a hearing room where a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee meets, two Pentagon sleuths, joined by a Capitol cop, set out on a spy hunt. Soon they clomped into the next-door office of New York's civil-righteous Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, brushed past his secretary, poked around in the Senator's closet refrigerator in search of a listening device. Next day the Senate (notably excepting Indiana's dissenting Republican Homer Capehart) thundered its indignation for two hours...
...receiving line, bride and groom slipped away to catch a train for the first leg of their honeymoon in Nassau. Margaret Truman had not been the only important bride of the week, but when it was all said and done, hers was the wedding that gave the U.S. that next-door feeling even if the nation stood on tiptoe to catch every detail of the other...
This distribution of undergraduate interest has the additional effect of preventing Eliot from becoming an anonymous, amorphous mass. Its members all have their own circles of friends, but there is no pressure on making a close friend of a next-door neighbor merely because of his contiguity or saying hello to someone from tutorial merely because he is one's tutorial...
Desirable Dames. What Bride's viewers see is a mishmash of kittenish domestic humor. Spring Byington lives with her daughter and son-in-law (Frances Rafferty and Dean Miller); a next-door neighbor, Pete Porter, adds a welcome touch of acid as a wisecracking foe of mothers-in-law, and Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed...