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...Broadway A CRY OF PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Strat-ford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She is always nagging; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this ill wedding, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-but one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help the play with her Bronx housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
...conventional atom bombs of up to 150 kilotons each. The Mach 2.2 Mirage carries a single bomb, and from such bases as Istres in Southern France can be over Russian cities in a half-hour. France has also success fully tested a medium-range missile called sol-sol-balistique stratégique, and plans to have 50 of them by 1970. In Haute-Provence, workers are building underground silos from which the missiles will be launched. This year France launched Le Redoubtable, the first of three submarines modeled after the U.S. Polaris-firing fleet and capable of carrying 16 missiles...
...dress belonged to his wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from Florence, a half-burned evening slipper. "I knew nearly every one of them," said the mayor of Atlanta. "I went to school with some of them...
...Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive Strat-field Saye House, the Wellington family seat near Reading, In 1952 Spain's Duke of Alba visited Stratfield, and spotted the painting, told Ric Brown, then a Harvard Ph.D. studying in Europe, about...
While playing golf last week at Tokyo, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, commander of U.S. Far East Air Forces, suffered a heart attack. This week he was under an oxygen tent in a Tokyo hospital. At 60, genial "Strat" was in no shape to carry on, would probably have to write finis to a fine military career, which began with his graduation from West Point in 1915, brought him to command of the Army Air Forces in the India-Burma theater during World War II and to his F.E.A.F. post in April 1949. The Pentagon quickly named...