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After dinner, Malraux gave a lofty address en art to the guests, who included James Baldwin, James Johnson Sweeney, Poet Saint-John Perse, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Mmes. Kandinsky and Léger, Ludmilla Tcherina, Yves Montand and Ella Fitzgerald. He called the museum "an important step in the history of the spirit" and concluded: "It was on a night like this that we heard the last blow of the hammer that completed the Parthenon. It was on a night like this that sounded the last blow of the hammer to Michelangelo's St. Peter's." -Yves Montand...
...officer should not benefit financially from a book related to his official duties. Except that it urged "complete unification" of the armed forces and raised questions about some aspects of U.S. defenses, little has been disclosed about the book. Rated most likely to succeed Power is General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., 54, a former SAC officer and present head of the Tactical Air Command...
Johnson's regular pilot, Colonel James Swindal, flew the President's plane. Next to him in the copilot's seat was General Walter C. Sweeney Jr., commander of the U.S. Tactical Air Command-aboard to direct the massive protective operation. In the air, each of the three 707s was picked up by a swarm of highflying jet F-105s armed with "Catling" guns able to fire 6,000 shots a minute, F-100s with rockets and cannons, F-4Cs with the deadly Sidewinder missile, F-104s and Navy F-4Bs with Sidewinders and cannon, and F-101s...
Virtue triumphs in the end of course, and Sweeney is strapped into his own chair for its final run. Since no one who rode the contraption in the course of the evening ended up in a pie crust (not even the one Sweeney shot in the head, for good measure), it is fair to conjecture that the demon barber is yet at liberty. Veal pie, anyone...
...Save the King," applauding patriotic aphorisms dropped by the hero, and sighing with the heroine as she coughs bravely into a handkerchief--a la Camille. In the second act, however, the cooperation changed to hostility, and even a superbly buffo fight could not rouse interest. A good period piece Sweeney Todd undeniably is, but who reads Henry Esmond for pleasure any more...