Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINCE HE IS a radical, Steven Shea has no objections at all to the timing of the premier of his first play, A Hero of Our Time, except to hope that people will not be too busy with politics to come to watch his representation of the politics of another era. When he graduated last year as an English major, he had written prose and poetry, but never before a play. Now, as a playwright and as a person involved in the Harvard community, he is concerned with the relevance of art to politics, and with a synthesis between them...
...57th birthday of Kim II Sung, Premier of North Korea. The downed U.S. Navy aircraft and the 31 American victims were in a way a grim birthday present from his own armed forces. Some analysts believe that he requested the present-that he issued instructions for another incident at the right moment, a sort of flying Pueblo. What makes Kim and his regime act that...
...shift power from Paris bureaucrats to newly created economic regions. Along with this popular measure, voters are asked to endorse De Gaulle's plans to strip away the Senate's powers and shift the line of presidential succession from the President of the Senate to the Premier-a De Gaulle appointee. Thus put, the packaging has roused the nons to fierce opposition and drawn to their side ex-Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Senate President Alain Poher, who last week was stumping the countryside in defense of "the separation of powers...
...most fascinating question has been raised by De Gaulle's threat of apres moi le deluge-since for once there is no deluge in sight. Instead, Frenchmen have a visible alternative to De Gaulle in ex-Premier Georges Pompidou. He loyally rejects the proposition that a no vote on the referendum is a yes for himself, and last week was out campaigning vigorously for De Gaulle's program. Nonetheless, his presence on the hustings could only allay any fear of post-De Gaulle chaos and give voters a choice in deciding whether the general had perhaps cried wolf...
...Laos, are essentially confined to small, mixed U.S.-South Vietnamese patrols that steal across the border to pinpoint Communist concentrations. In Laos, such reconnoitered targets usually come under quick air attack; U.S. bombers fly about 300 sorties a day into that country with the tacit approval of neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma...