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Hopes become specters. In the second and final act, their spouses are in Las Vegas, ready to marry each other. Pamela has become a wino; Caesario is numbing himself with work. She invites him to staunch their mutual loneliness by living with her "like brother and sister" in her Manhattan "Garden of Eden." There, in an alcoholic fuddle, they sign away their last legal rights to their mates, to Pamela's income, to Caesario's business. At play's end they are Chaplinesque waifs living in the charmed circle of innocents that includes saints, children, drunkards...
...before November they would have a chance to voice their disagreement in the campaigns for 435 House seats, 39 Senate places and 35 governorships. It is increasingly fashionable to say that elections are decided mostly by personalities and local issues, that a pleasant smile is more important than a staunch philosophy, that a candidate's stand on sewer bonds outweighs his views on foreign policy. But for all President Kennedy's rosy description of the nation's state, the U.S. does face grave problems abroad and at home. It is in the biennial elections that the American...
...assassination attempt was actually a bidon (phony) plot cooked up by Gaullist officials to scare the President into taking greater security precautions. But Tixier was made to look so ridiculous in trying to prove the charge that he dropped this strategy. Even Tixier's defense witnesses (though mostly staunch advocates of Algerie francaise) had little sympathy for the five. Snapped General Fernand Gam-biez: "It is because of maneuvers of men like them that Algerie francaise was lost...
Konrad Adenauer's discussions with Charles de Gaulle in West Germany this week will almost certainly encompass their mutual doubts about Britain's desirability as a partner in Europe's Common Market. Adenauer, whom Britain once considered a staunch ally in its efforts to join Europe, has taken the line of late that, politically and economically, the Common Market may already be too big for its own good. Last week, after a TV interview in which the Chancellor bluntly questioned "whether Britain really wants" political union. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan treated the undiplomatic incident as a threat...
...many Ghanaians, the accusations had a hollow ring. Foreign Minister Adjei, 47, has been a staunch supporter of Nkrumah for years and is a leader of the moderate fringe, which occasionally has urged sense on Ghana's erratic leader. By contrast, Adamafio, 40, is a ruthless opportunist who clawed his way to the top on the strength of his anti-West, pro-Communist inclinations. His main public activity was to dream up new, adulatory names for Nkrumah; but for weeks, rumors of his plans to overthrow the Redeemer had swirled through Accra...