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...word: goo. And Director Henry King has chosen to smear it pretty thickly on the screen. Goo is, of course, a major ingredient of every Hammerstein libretto, but in Oklahoma!, for instance-even in the movie version, which starred the same two singers (TIME, Oct. 24)-the sentiment was cut with a dash of comic bitters. In this production the players play it so coy that they sometimes seem close to baby talk. Actor MacRae sings pleasantly, though, and so do Shirley Jones and Robert Rounseville...
...political debate, the Vice President became the chief-and sometimes the only-political spokesman for his party. In the 1954 congressional campaign he swung through the country with a hard-hitting attack on Democratic leaders and candidates. Democratic spokesmen hurled back at him charges of "lie, slander and smear...
...Hatchetmen Smear." To a thunder clap of applause Stevenson declared that "Main Street cannot prosper while the back country is in trouble." On the outlook for peace: "We are spending $40 billion a year for peace, and there is none. Our situation is more perilous than ever . . . While the President smiles, the hatchetmen smear; while the President talks earnestly of peace, the Secretary of State brandishes the bomb and threatens atomic...
...election year it is perhaps unrealistic to ask a Congressional committee to frame constructive legislation. Yet the country may at least hope that the Joint Committee investigating the alleged fraud of the Al Serena Mines will eventually tire of exchanging the traditional partisan accusations of "smear" and "collusion." Perhaps it could then consider legislation of long-range concern for all Americans. The Committee might determine just why public land laws must continue to undermine the Forest Service's conservation program by allowing "mining companies"--real or contrived--to devastate our forest heartlands...
...blast against the Eastland subcommittee was hailed by newspapers around the U.S. The Denver Post called the hearings "The Big Floperoo" and a "puerile attempt ... to smear the New York Times...