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Sandals & Shooting. Kraft TV Theater also took a flyer at the toga-and-sandal crowd with Whim of Iron, a halfhearted comedy about Byzantine days and nights which came out so ineptly that its author, Michael Dyne, insisted on being identified over the air as "Michael Roberts." Explained Dyne's agent: "That's the only form of protest a writer on television...
...Will, by Whim. The result is an Assembly of 627 Deputies who agree on nothing but their own prerogatives-among them the power to overturn, at will or at whim, 15 governments in the last nine years. Once elected for their five-year terms, the Deputies are assured of tenure. If they are careful not to bring down two governments within 18 months by constitutional (314 votes) majorities -which they can and do avoid by close collaboration among themselves-there is no power in France, least of all a Premier, who can force them to face the voters...
...alltime high, there were inevitable uneasy looks back to 1929. Were 1954's stock prices as vulnerable as they were then? Where would they go from here? In their endless search for new ways to predict the market will do, Wall Streeters have developed theories to suit every whim. They range from the conservative old Dow Theory- so conservative that anyone who followed it since end would have missed most major market turns by - to attempts at guessing the market by studying the of the moss on trees, the number of lemmings, receipts in Milwaukee and the activity...
Which course, then, is Harvard to choose? Shall we follow Dartmouth College and Brown University into the abyss of submission to local provincial whim? Or shall we stand firm with the rest of the Ivy League, as national institutions, in adhering to Eastern Standard Time? Waiter L. McLean '56, Timothy D. Eilard '56, Edward K. L. Upton '56, Alan D. Lourle '56, Charles S. Lipson '54, and David J. Dreyer...
...blame? Generously-for he was not a Vargas man, and became Vargas' Vice President only through a whim of politics-Café Filho said that "it is not to the point now to investigate origins or guilt." But the disastrous errors were, in fact, made by Vargas to keep the political support of 1) electricity consumers, 2) planters who demanded the high fixed price that, as an unintended result, forced coffee revenues down, 3) credit-hungry businessmen, and 4) wage-boosting labor...