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Bobs & Sallies. For change-ringing purposes, a set of eight bells (called "Major") ranging from treble to tenor, are numbered one to eight. At the outset of a Plain Bob Major,t the bells are sounded in sequence (known as "rounds"), i.e., 12345678. Then changes are rung: 2143-6587, 24163857, 42618357, etc., through all the possible combinations. To complicate matters further, variations are obtained when the conductor calls for "bobs" or "singles" (two bells swap their places out of sequence or dodge backwards among other bells). Eight bells have been rung to their full "extent" (40,320 changes) only once...
Despite all the uproar that will spread across the land probably no more than 20% of the 435 seats will shift from one party to the other. At the outset, 100 Southern seats are conceded to the Democrats. Elsewhere, e.g., in the Republican strongholds of the Midwest, there are many other seats that can be shifted only by a political miracle. The real battleground narrows down to few more than 50 seats, two-thirds of them held by Republicans, one-third by Democrats...
...favor: 43%; against: 20%; don't know or don't care: 37%. Conservative voters disapproved of the tour, but only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage to China...
With great fanfare, Italy's weekly Oggi began publishing sensational documents that suggested strange doings between London and Rome at the outset of World War II. A letter addressed to Mussolini and signed "Churchill" recognized Italy's "right to the Mediterranean." A draft Mussolini-Churchill "agreement" recognized "the grave possibility" of Britain's defeat by the Axis and asked that Italy safeguard British interests "at any future peace conference." There were other letters and papers, all showing low jinks by high figures...
...play itself is; and in the most crucial scenes, it pulled Chekhov down rather than kept him afloat. This was sometimes a matter of interpretation, but oftener one of acting. Maureen Stapleton's Masha came closest to an entirely right performance, while Montgomery Cliffs Kostya at the outset, and Judith Evelyn's Madame Arkadina pretty much throughout, also scored...