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Equally striking is the contrast between the resiliency of many older men after a heart attack and the way in which younger men may succumb. A noted example last week was Cinemactor John Hodiak, 41, who seemed in excellent health-he had just passed an insurance examination-but had a quickly fatal attack while shaving. There are undoubtedly many cases in which a younger man will be killed simply because his disease is new while an older man with slowly developing disease will already have compensated, through collateral circulation, for a shutdown in an artery of the same size...
...woman she portrays. Her reading of Fry's complicated sentences is clear enough to reach even the hidden recesses of the second balcony, but it somehow never sounds declamatory or too loud. Miss Cornell's presence on the stage is so overwhelming, in fact, that the other actors sometimes succumb to the temptation to shout in order to make an equal impact on the audience. This defect is most noticeable in the performance of Tyrone Power, who plays the deserter. He projects the surface brashness of his character, but most of the other possible shadings of characterization are lost...
...Dulles, set about making SEATO "a going, living thing." The nervous little states that have already felt the fiery breath of the Chinese dragon listened intently. "SEATO must convince us that we will really be defended," said Laos' Premier Katay Sasorith. "Unless we are so convinced, we must succumb...
...accommodations. The West should make every attempt to neutralize future struggles by political and economic adjustment. Despite Knowland's fears, total war is not inevitable. Through the habit of searching for agreement, the possibility of ultimate settlement becomes increasingly feasible. By avoiding world conflict, the Western allies need not succumb to "nibbling aggression." For co-existence, clearly seen, is a guarded and armed accommodation with the Soviet Union...
...customary to begin any criticism of a college production with a lament about the difficulty of the row which the cast has chosen to hoe. There seems always to be abundant sympathy of the actors who struggle manfully with their chosen play and at the last succumb, done in by their own ambitions. In selecting School for Scandal for its first production this season, the Harvard Dramatic Club has wisely stifled its ambitions. School for Scandal is not a taxing play, for even when done with mediocrity, it is funny. When it is enhanced with production and acting genius...