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House of Flowers (book by Truman Capote; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Capote and Arlen) has a good deal of what its title evokes. Out of a West Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion. To be sure, the very things that give House of Flowers its charm and freshness also tend, after a while, to drain them away. For flowers wilt, and scent induces drowsiness...
Premier Pierre Mendès-France, said an unfriendly critic recently, is like a man on a bicycle who has to keep moving to avoid a spill. Last week, though no spill seemed imminent, the Mendès-France bicycle was patently wobbling...
...taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine Combination. But Stein, as usual, drove all the way; even a spill could not keep him from finishing fast, only 5.1 seconds behind the downhill winner, Austria's Christian Pravda...
...usually finish up an inning--not, of course, the whole game. But the referees indecision about overtime legality Saturday night shows that the rules are far from uniform. State legislators would do well to amend the law at least, making it possible to conclude those events which happen to spill over into the early minutes of Sunday morning...
...when the bonds were issued last week, they brought the federal debt just $25 million under the $275 billion limit, so close that the debt could easily spill over. So Humphrey dug into the Treasury's "free gold"-the profit realized in 1934 when President Roosevelt devalued the dollar (by increasing the price of gold from $20.67 to $35 an ounce). Using $500 million of the $1 billion left in the hoard, Humphrey bought U.S. securities from the Federal Reserve System and cut the debt by $500 million...