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...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's giant strength and giant sprawl, in a long-ago tale of a boozing innkeeper-well-played by Eric Portman-and his shattered pose of being a fine gentleman. With Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...
...downward course of a lifetime. As elsewhere too, O'Neill tells of one whose life would crumble but for his dreams and whose dreams themselves fall apart at last. And as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and wavering dramatic imagination...
...production sooner. If supplies of money, scientific and engineering brainpower and research facilities were unlimited, the ideal missile program for the U.S. might indeed be to let all three services go on developing complete missile inventories. But with resources tightly limited, the U.S. cannot afford to let competition sprawl into scatteration and wasteful overlapping. In the post-Sputnik crisis, continuation of interservice rivalry can only be regarded as the easy way out. Some hard decisions must be made, and they must be made in the Pentagon and the White House...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...
Satellites & Earaches. The "city," essentially, is no more; its 455-sq.-mi. area with 2,000,000 inhabitants is only a mother country, and its satellites sprawl around its perimeter for 4,853 sq. mi.-more than three times the size of Rhode Island-overreaching Los Angeles County, enveloping adjacent Orange County to the south. It is the nation's fastest-growing megalopolis, with a population (6,000,000) exceeding that of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada combined. And, like an energized amoeba, it is bewilderingly fertile...