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...twelve-cylinder excitement in the voices of Detroit's automakers was un mistakable. American Motors President Roy Abernethy predicted "a whale of a good quarter." Visiting Washington, D.C., G.M. Vice President and Chevrolet General Manager Semon E. Knudsen described sales so far in 1963 as nothing less than "a boom." predicted that the year would turn out to be Chevy's greatest. In Los Angeles, Ford Vice President Lee A. Iacocca anticipated that the boom would last not one year but five, heralded the beginning of "one of the most exciting eras in the history of the automobile...
Jackie Kennedy likes to give her sea-loving husband things that are nautical and nice. So for Christmas she gave the President a fine piece of scrimshaw to add to his growing collection. It was a sperm whale's tooth. 9½ in. long and 4½ in. in diameter. "This wasn't just an ordinary whale's tooth,'' marveled a White House aide. "I guess it is supposed to be the biggest damn whale's tooth ever found...
...spent 160 hours etching the Presidential Seal into the ivory and another 80 hours polishing it as clean as a hound's tooth. Jackie commissioned Delano for the job last summer. At that time. the townspeople of Fairhaven. Mass., presented the President with another, smaller whale's tooth, on which Delano had etched Jack's likeness. The President was so delighted with it that Jackie decided he ought to have another...
Perhaps no theater is large enough to hold the White Whale, and Welles intelligently lets audience imagination do the work of stage realism. He conceives of a turn-of-the-century acting troupe doing a sort of tryout rehearsal of a new drama, Moby Dick. A tall ladder serves for a mast, benches for longboats, and furled and swaying sails complete the Nantucket whaler Pequod. Pages of the novel are cut to stage cues, and the second and final act cuts to the mortal sea chase, which Director Douglas Campbell handles with brisk and believable intensity...
...soul as well as a ship, and that journey goes willfully off course. What is missing is the tragic sense. Captain Ahab is an authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the "malice inscrutable" of the White Whale. His mate Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds him that "a poor dumb thing" can have no malice. What Welles fails to grasp is that it is the inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance...