Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Moscow's continuing refusal to pay up for peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and the Congo. Unless the Russians kick in this time, the U.S. will move to strip them of their General Assembly vote under Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which ought to touch off the liveliest scene since Khrushchev took off his shoe. If and when that problem is settled, the long-nettlesome issue of Red China's admission to the U.N. is certain to follow...
...newly consecrated cathe dral. In some ways, the doors are closer 3 mint condition than the originals in Florence. After centuries, much of Ghiberti's detail was too weathered and worn to emerge clearly. So, after gilding the bronze, Bearzi's foundry chased the Renaissance precision touch back on. One craftsman spent six weeks detailing a postcard-size section, bringing out each and every feather on a bird no bigger than one-sixth of a postage stamp. What took Ghiberti 27 years to conceive and execute took eight man-years of labor just to imitate...
...which U.S. companies sell their products on TV, the Colgate-Palmolive Co. seems to hold the current lead. Hundreds of times a week its "White Tornado" whirls like a dervish across the nation's TV screens, and its "White Knight" charges about banishing dirt miraculously with a touch of his trusty lance. Colgate also has an Action "Giant" who reaches a muscular arm right out of the washing machine before awestruck housewives, most of whom are blissfully unaware of the Freudian predilections of Madison Avenue...
...Crimson basketball team opens its season against Amherst at 8 p.m. tonight in the IAB, and the contest should provide Harvard with its softest touch of the entire season...
Happened In. It was Mike Nichols, the director, who put Harry up on the railing. Nichols deals in exaggerated probabilities, and his touch has made hits of all three plays he has directed so far-The Knack, Barefoot in the Park and Luv. He may be one of the more gifted and promising new directors to take his place in the American theater since Elia Kazan left Constantinople...