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...production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former...
Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
With a bullish snort, the stock market last week regained about one-quarter of the 52 points lost since August. The Dow-Jones industrial average closed at 482.39, 15 points above the low at the start of the week. The upswing was almost identical to the surge from a 53-point drop last May. Said Wall Street Broker Harold L. Bache: "I look for higher prices and increasing activity in the market...
Management turned the problem over to Washington Internist Dr. William Lewis. Recruiting four printers from the color presses and one from the black-and-white presses, Dr. Lewis took samples of their blood and urine, sent them around the corner for a quick snort. When they came back, only the color-press printers had developed the characteristic symptoms. Dr. Lewis concentrated his studies on the color-press room, learned by interviewing the 240 men who worked there that the symptoms were most marked in the winter, when the heat was on and the windows closed. After more tests with...
Last week, with Kenya's political future still dimmed as a result of his remarks, Ewart Scott Grogan gave up the seat he had held on the legislative council since 1929. Kenya conservatism's most flamboyant defender was quitting on a snort of triumph, even though it was apt to be short-lived. "I had to do something positive amid all that yapping and whispering," he said. "I did it, and now I have retired...