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Many thanks for the June 22 article on "The New Girls in Hollywood." A delightful bit of writing! Shirley MacLaine is the best thing Hollywood has displayed in many a moon...
...Connor, 26, U.S. exchange student at Moscow University, and Mary Louise McMahon, 22, lately arrived from Tenafly, N.J., got married in the city's only Roman Catholic Church. Why get married in the U.S.S.R.? Explained O'Connor: "We just thought it would be a wonderful and memorable thing...
...feel that we have only scratched the door of revolution," announced Nasser in an interview with his newspaper Al Ahram. "When the tide of aggression receded from our land, this was the first thing that came to my view: the time had come for real revolutionary action." Nasser confessed that when he came to power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change...
Cried B-G: "Do not defile the memory of the slaughtered millions in the campaign you have started here, which everyone knows is an electoral campaign." Defending the contract, he said: "I have learned one thing from the appalling atrocities of Hitler: to make every possible effort to prevent such a disaster falling on the people of Israel. For although Hitler was defeated, his disciples in the Middle East still live, and it is they who rule in the Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends...
Splinters on the Bench. By most standards, the Yankees should beas far ahead as ever. Their fielding (.981) leads the league; their hitting (.261) is the best of the five top contenders. The one thing they lack is that patented Yankee authority in the clutch. Key balls dribble through the infield; key flies drop untouched. Yankee regulars have played like Little Leaguers before. But always Yankee pitching and that overwhelming Yankee bench made up for it. This year Stengel's pitchers have completed only 22 of 77 games...