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Calculated Risk, by Joseph Hayes, tells of an old-line New England textile company facing a takeover threat from a corporate raider. At first, the play promises to be a Marquandian confrontation between people who possess character and those who merely flash credentials. It also promises to contrast an older type of businessman who manufactured a product of quality and backed it with his name, and a newer type of paper manipulator who merely juggles figures and jiggles stock with irresponsible anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes...
...Staple Like Salt. She begged what recipes she could from her family and methodically added to that basic list whatever could be garnered from gourmet columns of the day or pried out of restaurant chefs and neighboring hostesses. Aware that she did not possess the gift of cooking by instinct, she took care to note measures and ingredients in explicit detail, never said "some butter" when she meant 4½ tablespoons or "cook until done" when she could define "done" as taking 2¼ hours. In 1931, when her children left home to get married, they took with them...
...different from its immediate predecessors. Admissions Dean Fred Glimp says that while its median college board score is perhaps a point or so higher than '65 there is no reason to claim that '66 is substantially, if any, brighter than other classes currently at Harvard. But if they possess no transcendental intellectual skills, the freshmen certainly lack the inhibitions that featured previous Yardlings. Dean Glimp and Freshman Dean Von Stade report that the seminar-coffee hours this year, based on reading that was sent out during the summer, were lively and provocative. The Class of '64 received a similar reading...
...Braque, Brancusi. etc., admired and copied African art. "The entire modern movement in Western art owes a debt to primitive Africa, and that is the point we are trying to make with this exhibition." McEwen says. "It is a fact that very few artists of contemporary style do not possess some well digested but evident influences of Africa...
...suffered a mild heart attack four months ago). After that, he may accept an offer to be editor of Bogota's new Liberal newspaper. La Tarde, and will enjoy the opportunity "to read a book in peace once again." Says Lleras: "The most important thing my successor will possess is having gained office in a true and open election." In Latin America that is quite a heritage for a departing President to leave behind...