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...performances, let me just say that two-week Shakespeare is insanity, as Mayer must know, having barely escaped unscathed from a three-week attack on The Tempest last year. By dashing off Shakespeare, the amateur forfeits his main advantage over the professional -- the unlimited time for rehearsals that can make performances almost second nature to an actor. Under the circumstances, the cast has done quite well. There are very few bad readings, but many indifferent ones. And the pace is much too slow...
...festival will feature big-name professionals (Jackie Washington, Odetta), local amateur groups such as the People's Theatre, and a number of films (Black Orpheus, Come Back Africa). But much of the entertainment will be provided by students of the Elma Lewis School, who will stage the Tempest, The Mikado, and a number of dance concerts...
...brass, the company would take the initiative away from Haddon by disclosing recall campaigns on its own. Thus, at the same time that registered letters went out to the car owners involved, Pontiac announced to the press last November that it was calling in 16,000 Tempest, GTO and Le Mans cars to correct a suspected steering-shaft misalignment. By February both Chrysler and Ford had adopted G.M.'s policy. Last month alone, automakers announced at least six call-backs involving more than 180,000 cars and trucks...
Fresh from his own trip to Europe to attend Konrad Adenauer's funeral, the President decided not to ignore the newly revived tempest over Viet Nam. Departing from the text of a speech to a group of physicists, he declared: "I want to negotiate a political settlement. But I can't just negotiate with myself. Maybe somewhere, somehow, some day, someone will sit down and want to talk instead of kill. If they do, I'll be the first one at the table...
...that it can. A tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.), handsome man with deep-set brown eyes and a classical nose that, according to his mother, acquired its Roman cast by getting broken in a high school football scrimmage, Gardner remains imperturbable in the midst of the tempest. As president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation for ten years before joining the Government, Gardner has long been accustomed to focusing on the future rather than on passing squalls. Thus he sees the uproar over the Great Society as nothing more than "whitecaps on a very deep...