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...this (and more State Department money), Kumo this year invited Clurman to direct it in another O'Neill play. Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller have been successfully performed in Japan. But O'Neill especially, says Translator Koji Numazawa, "is haunting to us Japanese, with his tortuous groping for an answer to the overwhelming question of God's existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki influence...
Picking Up the Slack. Pilots circling in tortuous holding patterns quickly exhaust their maximum allowable filing time. National Airlines by last week had canceled vacations and slashed 64 flights from this month's schedule. Northeast Airlines scrapped eight in one day. Last year delays cost the airlines $50 million. This year, in the Golden Triangle alone, they are hitting $1,000,000 a day. Uncounted-and largely unnoticed-additional losses come from air-cargo delays. New York Customs Broker Jack Hyams said that Kennedy Airport has freight stacked up "practically to the runway," with three-week delays for some...
Nonetheless, the discussions are likely to be long and at times exasperating, as is suggested by the nyet-studded and tortuous history of disarmament talks (see box opposite). "Discussions of this most complex subject will not be easy," conceded Johnson, "and we have no illusions that it will be." Not even the wildest optimists in the Administration consequently believe that the talks will lead to the complete elimination of missile systems. A freeze on existing offensive missiles is about the best that is hoped for; orbiting satellites could easily detect any effort to install new missile launchers, making inspection...
...source?some doubts remained about its completeness. U.S. Freelance Writer Andrew St. George, who had seen the original, called the Cuban text "hasty, doctored and bowdlerized." Some errors in transcription were almost inevitable: Che's handwriting was a tiny, jerky scrawl and, in the course of his tortuous marches through Bolivia's rough terrain, parts of the text had been blotted out by sweat and rain...
...yardsticks used outside the trade, soul's arrival is even more significant. Since its tortuous evolution is so intertwined with Negro history and so expressive of Negro culture, Negroes naturally tend to value it as a sort of badge of black identity. "The abiding moods expressed in our most vital popular art form are not simply a matter of entertainment," says Negro Novelist Ralph Ellison. "They also tell us who and where...