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Perhaps after Jack Gelber's Career went successfully from television to off-Broadway, other authors subsequently decided to skip the first step. The result is a cluster of television plays attitudinizing on live stages. But until any valid equation between Trendex potential and good theater is proven, plays which aim at the Bell Telephone Hour level of art ought to be kept off or swept off the boards. A good case might be made for these shows, though, on the grounds that plays with any dramatic pretensions are preferable to those which are explicitly commercial. A monstrosity entitled Greenwich Village...
...news from California made Republican hearts skip a beat. One week after election day, Vice President Dick Nixon moved into a steady 20,706-vote lead in his home state on the strength of the trickling count of absentee ballots. The switch of California's 32 electoral votes reduced Jack Kennedy's electoral count to 300, gave Nixon 223 of the 269 needed to win. Then Kennedy's lead in Minnesota (II) dropped on recheck to a shaky 22,011 (out of 1,537,844 votes cast). Since Kennedy's margins in such heavy-electoral-vote...
...actor than a performer. And through the character Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes a gay and warm and generous point about life itself: live it while you've got it because you only get it once...
Maintaining the tradition, students from public schools also excelled their private school counterparts in every other category. Much speculation has arisen concerning this perennial phenomenon. Some members of the Administration have cited the Sophomore Standing program as the most important factor. Many of the ablest preppies skip the freshman year and thus do not appear in the statistics...
...week's end the prosecution announced that it would skip over to evidence that officials were silent partners in firms receiving millions of dollars in government contracts. But all in all, it was a poor show. Said one courtroom observer, a Turkish newsman who had been haled into court on countless occasions for defying Menderes' oppressive press laws: "I fought Menderes, but not for this. If this is the best proof the government can produce, it would have been better to shoot the lot the morning of the revolution...