Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...16th major veto in seven years, his fourth in 1959. The other three this year: REA, wheat, tobacco bills...
...Coogan-Huller travel service flourished, added a "travel now-pay later" system for men who looked like good credit risks, experimented with a "group-payment plan" when seven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many...
Vague Enigma. The Soviet Union in its vague and enigmatic way was already trying to prove that an ultimatum is not an ultimatum. Spokesmen, ranging from Nikita Khrushchev ("I desist from attacking and welcome you," he told seven junketing U.S. Governors) to touring Frol Kozlov ("Is a proposal to hold negotiations an ultimatum?"), mixed menacing warnings and unyielding basic positions with genial talk about how agreement was possible. But the most significant Russian clue of all, though buried in the midst of invective, was Andrei Gromyko's hurt complaint that the Russian position had been misrepresented in Herter...
...point your actors. On the proscenium stage there is no problem, you point them toward the audience. When the audience is on all sides though, one would think that this solution could not be used. Mr. Hanson did it though, at one point producing a circle of seven people all facing outwards, like the bull moose protecting the herd from the foraging wolves. At other times actors turned fully around for no better reason than that they were about to make an important speech. Another problem with the four sided arena stage is that the audience is brought not only...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Seven Against the Wall, a dramatization of how Al Capone spent one of his St. Valentine's Days...