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Poets' Theatre in particular ought to consider more thoroughly their policy of staging plays which admittedly are unfinished. While the "workshop" arrangement of showing new plays to limited audiences is ostensibly designed to aid the playwright, it can produce an opposite effect if the term "workshop" becomes a partial excuse for incomplete work...
Radio Corp. of America has been operating in a partial vacuum (inside its radio tubes) for years, so thin-air space work (37% of sales) came naturally. Among its projects: prime contractor on Tiros weather satellites and on NASA's Relay communications satellite system...
...program was more than a simple discussion of N.S.A., as moderator Jerry Williams, openingly declaring himself "partial," insisted on badgering and harrassng Phillips on his well known right wing views. Phillips responded with a mixture of directness, evasiveness, and irritation, reducing the obviously frustrated Williams to asking Howie if "you dislike me, am I a socialist...
...hand of friendship and financial aid, to lure such occasionally dissident Communist dictators as Yugoslavia's Tito and Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka to the side of the West. But recent events have changed the President's mind. Gomulka, following Moscow's lead, moved toward partial mobilization of Poland's armed forces, and warned that Poland would not "remain passive" in the Berlin crisis. And fortnight ago, at the conference of neutrals in Belgrade, Tito coolly excused Russia's resumption of nuclear tests...
Making Friends. The U.S. Government itself is confined to a surprisingly small share of student exchange. Last year it provided only partial sponsorship for only about 5,000 foreign students. The rest are left to the kind of private effort that Coombs calls "the people's branch of foreign relations." He means that making U.S. friends out of foreign students is almost entirely a challenge to individual Americans, from the college president who selects sanely and sets up solid orientation to the family that feeds and houses foreign students with courtesy and discretion...