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...best preview of what America will be living with in the near future is Chicago's annual International Home Furnishings show. To it come some 40,000 department-store buyers; there to catch their eyes are all the leading U.S. furniture manufacturers, who last week had filled up ten floors of the Merchandise Mart, decorated 700 sample rooms, and put on display some 8,000 pieces of furniture. Most were familiar. American buying habits have long been traditional and change slowly; Chippendale copies still outsell modern 100 to 1, and buyers with lots of money tend to want...
...very hard to preview that because [Congress has just elected] a new president [Arthur da Costate Silva] who is also a general, who was minister of war, and who was forced upon Castelo Branco as a way of getting rid of Castelo Branco without disrupting the army unity. So they chose the minister of war and said. "You are going to be the next president." But still be is a general. He had some supporters and some enemies, but away he is different from Castelo atanco in his concept of government. BeCastgelo Branco is a so-called military intellectual, while...
...through the seven weeks in Philadelphia and Boston, they labored to whip Breakfast at Tiffany's into something palatable, but the talents of Playwrights Nunnally Johnson, Abe Burrows and Edward Albee couldn't save the musical. After the fourth dismal preview in Manhattan, Producer David Merrick, 54, flashed a sort of risus sardonicus and announced: "Rather than subject the drama critics and the theatergoing public to an excruciatingly boring evening, I have decided to close the show. It's my Bay of Pigs." And this particular sow's ear will cost Merrick...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National "500" Stock Car championship, Charlotte, N.C.; the World Lumberjack championships, Hayward, Wis.; and a preview of the Nov. 14 Clay-Williams heavyweight championship fight in Houston...
McKusick and Hardin were both unbeaten going into Saturday's race, and the duel was supposed to be a preview of the Heptagonal championship at the end of the season. Running hard and neck-and-neck, the two sophomores clicked off a 4:40 opening mile and a 4:45 second mile. McKusick, who had never even been challenged in any of his races up to that time, was hard-pressed to hold the pace. He took a severe leg cramp after three miles, and Hardin just breezed in from there...