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British balletomanes cheered once more for Fancy Free, Pillar of Fire and other modern numbers that Ballet Theatre had presented on its previous visit four years ago. They also found something new to rave about in Agnes de Mille's carefully repolished Rodeo (music by Aaron Copland). An elegant first-night audience got so far into the roughriding spirit of the thing that they obeyed the program notes, beat their hands in time to the "Running Square Dance" sequence...
...wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...
First the gasoline erupted into a tall, twisting pillar of bright flame. In its glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness. Then, while seven fire trucks pumped Foamite into the flames, the bombs went off, blasting a crater as big as a bungalow. Bodies were blown back across the field, the fire trucks rolled up like the tops of sardine cans, the trailers and their little picket fences were smashed, as one witness put it, "like a giant had stepped...
South Korea's leaders, harassed and driven from pillar to post, were still not talking or acting like representatives of a beaten people. Rhee sees the war as a step in reuniting Korea-under Rhee. Said the benign, white-haired President to a TIME correspondent last week: "The Kremlin leaders destroyed the 38th parallel by invasion. Now it is gone. There is no reason now why we should observe the 38th parallel and no reason why the U.S. and the U.N. should observe it ... The cold war and all that is a waste of time. Finally force...
Help. Overalled cops from the police emergency squad were finally called in. They cut the ends from an oil drum, lowered it around him as protection against further caving and then began to shore the well with lumber and rig supports under the roof in case digging weakened the pillar. A crowd gathered. Photographers fired flashbulbs down the hole; Dominick grinned up sheepishly...