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Cold-Eyed Calculation. Holding equal sway with the tyranny of time, is the tyranny of pictures. To the TV reporter, his producer is a man who dotes on "fender-bender footage": auto crashes, fires, demonstrations, fights...
...Minister of England at 24. But complex technologies and lengthy professional studies have forced young men to play the waiting game. Also, they have lost what Lexicographer Bergen Evans notes was "the fastest path of advancement-dead men's shoes." In Europe and Asia, the old still hold sway. In the heart of Europe, De Gaulle is in full command at 75, and it is unlikely that Germany would defy ex-Chancellor Adenauer...
...gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...
Future Step. The choreography for the 34-minute ballet was also slightly schizophrenic, a mixture rather than a melding of styles in which classical techniques alternated with the swivel and sway of modern dance. The action was fluent and quick moving. It spilled out in a stream of consciousness that followed no clearly defined course but swirled into moments of great beauty. What Nureyev's flights of fancy lacked was strong musical accompaniment. Hans Werner Henze's complex score was dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced...
...shifts in its 1,268 common stocks every half hour. The American Exchange will average its 1,045 stocks every hour, also provide a day's-end tabulation of the point spread by which all stocks rose or fell. How much, if at all, the new averages will sway speculators is unknown; they will at least provide the most comprehensive reading that any stock market has ever...