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...changing the scene to Herne's oak for the masque finale is highly ingenious. In fact, never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore. Slender wears a pink doublet, amber hat, and ridiculous flowered chintz trousers...
...displacement, 37 tons) could do serious scientific work was useful to Professor Bigelow, who was writing a report on oceanography for the National Academy of Sciences. Relieved to find that very large yearly sums for big vessels were not necessary, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Bigelow $3,000,000 to outfit and endow an oceanographic institute. Bigelow set up his institute in Woods Hole-a small town on a narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence there, flowing around the town and through its small, snug harbors. Grey fog often drifts through...
...countless great oarsmen and rowing coaches in a 37-year career, Callow was forced to step down from active coaching a month ago because of failing health and eyesight. But at the finish of the race last week, Rusty Callow could feel satisfied. His Navy crew, only a mediocre outfit this season but revamped for the I.R.A., made a gallant closing spurt, finished a strong third, just a deck length back of Syracuse...
...formed. The group begins as a trio, built around an astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings pick up, and with the addition of two more saxophonists and a drummer, the outfit seems on the point of blowing itself a big name...
...Moslem support of the French confined to the docile, despised beni-oui-ouis (yes men). One village mayor switched sides abruptly after the brutal 1957 Melouza massacre by the F.L.N. Another convert was hardy Mohammed ben Chickh, only a year ago top sergeant in a crack F.L.N. commando outfit. Last September he rode into a French army post on a mule, explained he had grown disillusioned with the war. "We've got to put an end to this," he says, "because only then can we start building a new Algeria and recover our dignity...