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...today's events, Neville Hayes is seeded first in the 200-yard butterfly on the basis of his performances this season. His clocking of 1:57.4, set against Navy in December, is a full three-and-a-half seconds better than the next best time, turned in by Tim Kennedy of Yale. Bruce Fowler and Bob Corris are strong throats to upset Yalis Dale Keifer, whom Corris edged last week, in the 200-yard breast-stroke...
...soaring, wedge-shaped shed (estimated cost: $10 million) that will shelter eight acres of exhibits. The roof is made of an interlace of cables covered with a steel deck, and hangs off steel pylons at the four corners. Says Roche: "It's as if you roofed over three-and-a-half city blocks at the 12-story level...
...when Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, went backstage to visit Broadway's Fanny Girl Barbra Streisand, 22. "I'm really honored," bubbled Barbra, clearly launched into orbit. "I'm always interested in scientific and medical things. Whenever I go to the dentist, I can spend three, three-and-a-half hours there talking about nerve endings and things like that. But about those things up there-I don't know what a star's made of. Do you?" "Good looks-talent-a sense of humor," drawled Carpenter, scattering a little moondust...
Even Shakespeare purists who pale at the idea of a 110 minutes cutting of the three-and-a-half hour play, will approve of Welles's condensation. His use of panning camera motion animates the long dialogue sections he retained from the play's late acts, particularly the soliloquies which on stage tend to be unbearably static. This vividness and motion more than compensate for the confused nature of the early scenes, in which Welles's attempt to speed through preliminaries makes a prior reading of the play advisable...
...consider him a traitor because of his policies, yes; but they reserve their strongest feelings of dislike for his autocracy and pomposity. In this, they are curiously close to the political regulars of Paris; but the differences are naturally more striking. In helping to bring him to power three-and-a-half years ago, the extremists in the Army hoped to end what it considered the futile game of French parliamentary politics. They considered France's indulgence in that game the cause of France's weakness and vacillation during the last years of the Third Republic and under the Fourth...