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Phffft! Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday, as man and exwife, give a wacky answer to the divorce question (TIME, Nov...
Books, movies and the stage sometimes tell as much about the spiritual state of an era as the churches. Broadway's most notable failure this season was Roman Catholic Novelist Graham Greene's play, The Living Room (TIME, Nov. 29), in which an adulterous triangle destroys itself in the helpless presence of a paralyzed priest, against a background of bigoted neurosis. In London the play ran to packed houses for 38 weeks; in Manhattan it lasted just 21 performances. Last week the Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, registered a well-taken complaint...
...game against the London Harlequins on Nov. 20, Vince got a pass from a teammate and carried the ball over the goal line for his first "try," or score. Jones was so elated by his try that he shook hands with the teammate who had passed him the ball. After the match, the team secretary again called the U.S. player aside. "Vince," he said, "some of the officials were a little disappointed to see you and John shaking hands out on the field. Vince, you must understand we don't want to turn this into an emotional game like...
...closed-door policy was especially galling to U.S. manufacturers, who were asked recently by the Administration to support a program of stepped-up imports from Japan, lest the island be forced to trade with Red China (TIME, Nov. 29). Many a U.S. merchant in Tokyo thought that Japan wanted to discourage private U.S. capital to get more U.S. Government handouts. Said a U.S. official in Japan last week: "Give and take has come to mean something much different to the Japanese. To them it means 'you give and we will take...
...Dixon-Yates contract, which has already been raked over by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy (TIME, Nov. 22), last week came up for a second currycombing. This time it was the turn of the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC was not interested in the public v. private power debate that has raged around the contract. It was interested only in financing details of the null plant that Dixon-Yates has contracted to build at West Memphis, Ark. to provide power for the Atomic Energy Commission. Like any other new company planning a stock issue, Dixon-Yates needed...