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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University last week, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser told a cheering audience that his country must "mobilize for the decisive battle against Israel." For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, in one of his toughest statements, warned that his army would invade Jordan if terrorists continue to use it as a base from which to raid Israel. Said Dayan: "The Jordan Valley could turn into a battlefield in which there will be no room for civilian life, for families, children, cattle or agriculture...
...WKBF-TV. The host, Ventriloquist John Slowey, slipped lavaliere mikes around the necks of his young dummy, "Private Clem," and of the guest of the day. "What do I call you-your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since New York City's Fiorello La Guardia read the comics...
...Meillands trace their business success to a trip that Francis Meilland made to the U.S. in 1935. He traveled 15,000 miles cross-country in a secondhand car and studied the American rose industry-from breeding to selling. When Meilland went home, he became the first in Europe to use color plates in his catalogues and promote sales campaigns with colored posters He also fought persistently for European patent laws that would protect his new plants. Until his lobbying achieved success all over the Continent, his best products were pirated by competitors Today, with the law behind it, the Meilland...
Died. Rudolph Dirks, 91, German-born artist and creator of those comic-strip delinquents The Katzenjammer Kids; in Manhattan. Starting with the old New York Journal in 1897, Dirks was the first to use balloons to enclose dialogue, first to plot a story in consecutive panels, and one of the first to use color. Today his strip (now known as The Captain and the Kids and drawn by his son John) is syndicated in 96 U.S. and 20 foreign papers...
WHICH is not to say the production lacks a sense of designed visual coherence. Although the settings themselves (for which no program credit is provided) are neither beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly...