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...Neil H. McElroy, they were informed politely but firmly that the missile programs had a top man: Neil McElroy. Missileman William M. Holaday, explained the Defense Secretary, is missile "director," and "I consider that I am easily accessible to him when he needs the power that I happen to possess.'' As for President Eisenhower's new missile adviser, M.I.T.'s Dr. James Killian: "I do not believe it was intended at any point for Dr. Killian to come into the Defense Department for order-giving, and I do not believe that he thinks...
...usually find their way to loan exhibitions, but such treasures as these, difficult to exhibit, rarely get a chance to circulate. Done throughout Europe at a time when art and life were by no means considered independent entities, these subtle masterpieces of the late middle ages and early renaissance possess the virtue of being eternally modern...
...long been a paranoiac sports town with a moody, individualistic idol representative of its frustration. The complex extends not only to the Yanks, but to the New York sportswriters, who are envisioned as engaging in a plot to destroy the few postseason consolations which fans in other cities may possess...
...York is now a one-hoss sports town and the shout of its iron heel may never be raised again. But its denizens have one comforting thought. They possess the best in the American League--the Yankees and Mickey Mantle...
...Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto, compared to which a combination of The Magic Flute and Parsifal would seem simple. The story, embroidered by Librettist Hofmannsthal with the myths of not one but half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who, being born of a spirit, does not possess anything as human as a shadow-or the ability to bear children. Since she is married to a more human ruler, she must acquire a shadow or forfeit her husband's life. With the help of a witchlike nurse and surrounded by innumerable magic effects (a sword springing from...