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...late to be a Halloween goblin, too early to be a Christmas Santa. Actor Charles Laughton was trapped 'tween seasons with enough facial forestry to make a sensation at a woodchoppers' ball. Actually, he had let himself go to seed for a role as King Lear at Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespearean theater. Leaving London on a brief trip to Paris, where presumably he would roam incognito. Laughton muffled: "I'll be glad to get a lawnmower on this...
sugar subsidy, which amounted to $190 million last year, as the difference be tween hope and disaster in Cuba. If it goes, the diplomats reason, Castro will be left with the spiraling economic chaos that his helter-skelter reforms have made...
Wartime Romance. This momentous incident began a wartime romance be tween the U.S. Navy and oceanographers, whom most Government officials had until then considered a curious tribe of men messing about with sounding leads and little bottles of water samples. In the next few years, oceanographers at Woods Hole and its Pacific counterpart, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., trained hundreds of Navy officers-instructing sub men in how to use the sea's geography and mobile anat omy for concealment, teaching destroyer men how to trail their quarry through the sea's jungles...
...asserted that the absence of copyright treatises be tween Russia and free-world states has allowed Soviet pub-ishers "to pirate the works of Western authors" without their consent and without guaranteeeing compensation. Western firms have dealt in the same way with the works of Russian authors, Berman stressed...
...France's late Poet-Ambassador (to the U.S. in 1927-33) Paul Claudel: its tendency to reduce a profound, many-faceted conflict to charcoal black and Rinso white. But Bernstein gave the music the surging, evocative reading that its subject demands, kept a near-perfect balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense of tandem with the score. Both got an ovation before they hustled off to a party to celebrate the Philharmonic's departure on a seven-week Latin American tour. For Felicia...