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FUNNY GIRL (Capitol) is actually a fourth album triumph for Barbra Streisand. She sings nearly all the Jule Slyne-Bob Merrill songs, from the ragtime Cornet Man and up-tempo Don't Rain on My Parade to the ballads that are a fever chart of her love affair, from its first tender moments (People) to the dawn of doubt (Who Are You Now?). Danny Meehan is a lively musical addition as a vaudeville hoofer, but Sydney Chaplin sounds as if he needs to be wound...
Concluded the committee: "The tempo and violence of the disturbances were such that there is little doubt that they held out a real threat to life and security, which could only be met by strong measures. In these circumstances, Zone authorities and U.S. military forces were entitled to use force...
...Italy, Fiat Chairman Vittorio Valletta calls it "un certo snobismo"-a touch of snobbism. Other European auto executives describe it in terms of sophistication or selectivity. Whatever words they use, all agree that their business is being reshaped by a significant switch: in size and tempo, Europe's auto market is following the American way. Not only are Europeans buying more cars, but they are moving up to larger, costlier, more powerful models. Says John Andrews, Detroit-trained president of West Germany's Ford Taunus: "A few years ago, Europeans were primarily interested in basic transportation. Now they...
...intensity of feeling that Gilroy achieves in Roses is sometimes choked off by the drab, laconic, colloquial dialogue his characters use, and a few bursts of eloquence might have been risked to vary the tempo of speech. Whoever chose Sheen, Dailey and Albertson for their roles must have been working under a sign of the zodiac favorable to perfect casting, and Ulu Grosbard's direction belongs in the category of craft that conceals craft. In The Subject Was Roses, Broadway has that rarest of dramas, a play that dares to show its face, and not its heels, to reality...
...revising their estimates upward, now expect this year's production to equal 1955's record 117 million tons. At the American Iron and Steel Institute convention in New York last week, Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block foresaw at least twelve more months of "increasing business tempo...