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...squadron of finned, 50-ft.-long rockets, which they insisted were anti-missile missiles (the birds looked more like beefed-up versions of the Soviet SA-2 antiaircraft missile, and Western observers thought that at most they could be the equivalent of the U.S Army's Nike Zeus). At the Kremlin reception later, Khrushchev's toasts were so heartily anti-Western that U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler finally asked: "Where is the Spirit of Moscow? I haven't heard any toasts I could drink...
...need of help; but who expects a miracle from program notes? "As always in Mohini Attam, the dance by its comment essentializes the story from the point when Dharmaraj, chief of the Pandavas, is tricked by the evil chief of the Kauravas into gambling away his birth-right. . ." "Like Zeus, Krishna had many loves among the heavenly nymphs and the Gopis." Even Western mythology, in the drama of Sophocles, for example, is an acquired taste for us these days. It may have brought the Greeks a catharsis of pity and terror, but today only classicists have the skill...
Jason and the Argonauts. The reflecting surface of the fish pond in Zeus's palace on Mount Olympus is a sort of giant-screen TV that brings in news shows from all over the Aegean. Zeus and Hera, who are just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...motorcade reached the city limits, De Gaulle jumped to his feet, waved theatrically to the Athenians gathered under the pepper trees. At Hadrian's Arch, near the Temple of Olympian Zeus, he said with feeling: "No Frenchman, especially myself, could fail to be moved by this city, nor forget what has been accomplished here for liberty in 3,000 years." Then he plunged nearsightedly into the curbside crowd to shake hands-a procedure that gives his security guards perpetual jitters...
...Held in the Senate the first secret session in 20 years.* The action was demanded by South Carolina Democrat Strom Thurmond, who said he had classified material to present in defense of his move to add $196 million in funds for Nike-Zeus missile sites. The Senate was evidently not impressed by Thurmond's information. When the Senate reopened its doors four hours and 26 minutes later, Thurmond lost by a vote...