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STRATFORD, Conn.--I suppose almost everyone has been put through Julius Caesar as a high-school sophomore and been forced to commit some of its speeches to memory. For all its familiarity the play remains, like Beethoven's Fifth, a rattling good work; and no one should shrink from mounting it on that account...
...Fidelity man is certainly a credit to de corps. No longer is there suppressed boyhood envy of the white-suited Good Humor man, no longer jealousy of bankers' grey. A fig for Braniff stewardesses in Pucci bloomers. Even those Avis chaps with their blazers and TRY buttons shrink to insignificance when one no longer has to go to work one day in a blue suit, another day in brown. No more agonizing morning quandaries over what tie to wear! Except, of course, for Fidelity's girls. They wear grey skirts with their blazers. No ties...
...body, and he aches to join the men of his family. Sheepherders for many generations, they spend every summer with their flocks in the green grazing lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full of rich detail. Miguel encounters and narrowly escapes a rattlesnake, goes with his brother on a hunt for a predatory bobcat, adopts a newborn orphan during the hectic lambing season of spring, rescues a flock of strays from a snarling wolf pack. Perhaps the most rewarding adventure...
States may ultimately find a role in solving problems hitherto reserved for the cities--and the federal government. Everyone knows that as the middle class flees to the suburbs, cities' tax bases tend to shrink, while their needs for revenue, generated by the presence of increasing numbers of poor people, continue to grow. Political scientists have often urged the formation of metropolitan governments, but city home rule-one of the great causes of urban reform in the first years of this century--allows suburbs to refuse to be joined to the less affluent cities. (Fear of racial desegregation also plays...
...theatres originally set up to telecast the bout have shrunk to 40 (none in Boston) and may shrink more before the opening bell. The fight will be carried on radio only by the Canadian Broad-casting Company...