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...first time in years. "I think maybe we were seasick too," says Balanchine, "but we ate anyway." The ballet world remembers the trip because it was part of ballet's great westward movement. Like many other Russian tourists in those days, Balanchine & Co. finally got a telegram: return at once or be punished. Says Balanchine: "If we went back, we would be punished anyhow-no food." He never went back...
...According to World, MacLean suggested Pontecorvo. His friend, Guy Burgess arranged the details, and after a few weeks, Pontecorvo and his wife (the former Swedish mistress) went on a vacation to Sweden and disappeared. Nine months later, Burgess and MacLean followed suit, leaving behind MacLean's now-famous telegram to his wife: "Please, don't stop loving...
LIQUOR-BY-WIRE will soon be a reality. Taking a cue from the florists, Manhattan's Beverage-By-Wire Inc. has made arrangements with dealers in 18 wet states to deliver gift liquor ordered by telegram...
...they must have forgotten, for, if not, they would recognize Senator McCarthy's telegram crusade for what it is. Like Ponzi, the Senator advertised of the big things to come. Like Ponzi, he invested a little something--the small effort required to elicit extremist telegrams from roughly .0002 percent of the nation. And like Ponzi, he now sits back while the public blows up this gaggle of telegrams into political support...
...this, however, the fact remains that McCarthy's telegram crusade has become an issue and will probably remain one. Can anything be done to counter it? Unlike the case of Ponzi, there can indeed--if only moderate elements, the people who do not ordinarily rip off letters at the drop of a charge, will make an effort. It is a simple matter for everyone who approves of the Administration to set down their "I Like" and mail it. One would prefer that the matter not be further blown up by a handful of "I Like" and "I Don't Like...