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Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
...Ballet is important and significant-yes," he says. "But first of all, it is a pleasure. No one would enjoy watching a group of dancers jump about the stage aimlessly, no matter how well they jumped. After all, a pig can jump-but who wants to see a pig jump?" Nobody has a better right than George Balanchine to decide what ballet audiences do and do not want to see. As head man of the young (five years old) New York City Ballet Company, he has enticed record-breaking numbers of watchers into theaters on two continents; as a choreographer...
...turning airplane have been studied in whirling "human centrifuges," but the brief, intense forces of sudden starting or stopping cannot be simulated in this way. The Air Force uses, instead, a rocket-propelled sled that slides along steel rails at Edwards Air Force Base. A human guinea pig rides on the sled. When it is shot down the rails, or stopped by powerful brakes, almost any number of Gs can be brought to bear on the man's body. Last week Colonel Donald D. Flickinger of the Air Research and Development Command told some of the results of playing...
...weeks Sergeev traveled the length of Greece from Salonika to Crete, glad-handed everyone, did everything but kiss babies. He invited 500 prominent Greeks to the embassy for a Russian film premiere, feasted another 500 on roast suckling pig and caviar washed down with champagne and vodka...
...they? Odalisques caught off guard by the photographer? Do they think the public is going to spend money to see them in B pictures if they are going to spend our substance on $6.50 meals (and up) and if they are going to live on the fat of "suckling pig dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes," etc ... By the way, Robert Cummings looks more like B. Lillie . . . ED E. HERBST Philadelphia