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Patently parallel, the two affairs reiterate a favorite Bergman theme: love is an illusory, ephemeral phenomenon; understanding is possible only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation from the tomboy of A Lesson in Love to the model in Dreams is particularly noteworthy, and Miss Dahlbeck exhibits control like very few actresses around...
...greatest misgivings." Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and New York's Herbert Lehman offered a proposal to amend the resolution so as to cut the offshore islands out of the defense perimeter. The amendment was beaten down, 74-13 (Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both absent, were paired: Kennedy for, Johnson against). In April 1955, Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend Quemoy and Matsu." The President sent Admiral Arthur Radford, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the then Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson...
...effort to put some semblance of pep into the offensive line-up, Yovicsin will start Hobie Armstrong, sophomore speedster, at left half to team with Larry Repsher. After a good day in the Holy Cross opener, Repsher has been conspicuously absent from full-time duty...
...careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai Stevenson. And it need hardly be remarked be that views of this sort have not been conspicuously absent from the recent political scene...
...paid off: last week Powers announced that Prentice-Hall profits this year will be up 17% on sales of $50 million, with 1960's earnings to be 87? per share v. 74? last year. Another key to the success of prestigious Prentice-Hall, founded in 1913 by two absent-minded professors: it takes virtually no gambles on fiction, puts out mostly textbooks and business publications...