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...That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore the complaints and suggestions of those who aided the revolution," Castello Branco vowed in a speech at Pôrto Alegre. "Yet we will not be diverted by those who, with the pretext of defending the revolution, want to smash liberty and benefit from its disappearance...
GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums...
...takes no ESP to predict that On a Clear Day You Can See Forever will be a solid smash on Broadway, yet also predictably the show will not set off the seismographic tremors that Alan Lerner has created in the past. Mr. Lerner has chosen to collaborate with the veteran composer Burton Lane, whose brilliant score for Finian's Rainbow of 1947 greatly influenced subsequent musical. The combination of two expect giants leads one to expect the ultimate, and the attempt to floor the audience certainly becomes obvious. But the show unhappily remains more an entertainment than an experience...
Indian jet fighters streaked from the sky to smash the armored spearhead. Fearful of losing the strategic city of Jammu, the Indian high command ordered the drive on Lahore, removing the battle from Kashmir to Pakistan proper, and changing a brush-fire war into a full-scale challenge. The escalation had increased, and the suspense was over. Whatever else Ayub Khan and Shastri accomplished last week, they had noisily reopened the question of Kashmir...
...announcing that they must add an extra charge to steak, crab or lobster dinners. The prices of drinks are edging up too; in expensive Manhattan restaurants, a martini now mixes at $1.40. Going to the movies is a steadily more expensive pastime, and seats for Broadway musicals will soon smash the $10 barrier; one show will charge $11.90 this fall...