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...changes are small, but anyone who knows the play well will find them interesting. For instance, the corrupt Senator of the Broadway version has become a corrupt Congressman. Paul Verrall used to work for the New Republic, but that isn't mentioned any more. Billie's reference to a toilet is guarded; and more inexplicably, she no longer hums "Anything Goes" in the card-playing scene...
When Scottish Nationalist Dr. John MacCormick, Glasgow's new rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics...
...area where the shoe might pinch. In wrathful comment on a New York Times story which raised the question of Argentina's "totalitarian" President Perón, Buenos Aires' die-hard Peronista daily La Epoca bellowed: "Such newspapers should not have the right to print, even on toilet paper, such libelous information [against] . . . a nation which is leading the world in the art of liberating people from Communist infection...
Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...
...Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes the hours of flight a competition in painful restraint...