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...campaign, Candidate Quadros promised all things to all voters, right, left and center. Now Brazilians wondered what tack he would take in the cold war. In foreign affairs, Quadros denounced Communism as "the new imperialism." At the same time, he opened Brazil's arms "without prejudice, to all nations of the new world as well as to the ancient communities of Europe and Asia." The announcement left leeway for the wish-expressed by Quadros during a pre-election trip to Moscow-for relations with Russia that might help dispose of Brazil's 40 million bags of surplus coffee...
...seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week. "When it's Blackpool on the line for talent," says one showman, "agents automatically tack...
...drawn correspondents' wagons, get caught in a blistering crossfire. Plastic corpses-eight in grey, eight in blue-litter the battlefield; farmhouses burn; cannon balls seem to plop within inches of the customers. Crossfire is Freedomland's favorite device: the "Buccaneers" concession sends paying guests on a port tack between two fiercely battling pirate ships; and throughout the Wild West, Indians are forever blazing away at anything that moves, usually past the noses of tourists...
Equity said its demands would cost individual producers only $50 to $173 a week next season, could easily be absorbed in current budgets, which, said the union, are warmly padded. The producers, on the other hand, insisted that they simply could not afford to tack a single penny onto already excessive production costs. Amid all the argument, the playgoer is sure of only one thing: he pays more for tickets than ever before. In 1940, seat prices ranged from 50? to a maximum (for musicals) of $4.40. Today's top: $9.90. Where does this money...
...ducks at a sideshow shooting gallery. The Congressman whose proposal did the most harm was New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing a decent bill because Southerners balk. In a bipartisan attempt to save school aid, the Administration offered House Democratic leaders a substitute measure similar to the Democratic bill. They agreed to the substitution, and if the maneuver had worked, it would have neatly sidestepped...