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...Maids concerns two servants who play out a dream-game whenever their mistress is absent. In the game one emulates the Mistress and the other plays the trainbearer who finally kills her superior. Always killing characters behind their masks, Genet screams that he is taking revenge...
...surprising (for a country in which compromise politics has been absent for a generation) settlement vindicates the United States' decision to send its fleet into extra-territorial waters near the Dominican Republic at the moment when the Generalissimo's brothers appeared to be attempting a coup. One cannot be sure what Balaguer had in mind when he asked for U.S. support (other than the desire to stay in power); his recent action indicated a preference for the company of military leaders that might bring military dictatorship to the country. Certainly, one can doubt the sincerity of Balaguer's promises...
With Paul Sullivan, Hampy Howell, and Clark Grew absent, coach Jack Barnaby moved sophomore John Vinton up to number two, with Doug Walter at three and Roger Wiegand at four. Vinton came through with flying colors, routing Cadet Ross McQuillen in consecutive games...
...gifted man. One would have expected, for example, his new position to be announced simultaneously with the news that he was quitting as Under Secretary of State. Instead, a day passed, and Bowles spent an hour with Kennedy before his new job was named. President Kennedy is not an absent-minded man, and his seems a curious way of dealing with an official of such rank, whose political inuence is by no means negligible...
...Bears have lost only one man from a team which compiled a 15-5 record last season, but their captain. Ron Famliagetti, will be absent from the lineup because of a broken ankle suffered in one of the opening practices...