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...absence of a quorum prevented the group from making any real transaction of business, but the members discussed several reports, assuming approval by those absent. These reports will be finally passed on next week...
...relations be tween the Western allies. For several years, Britain, France and the U.S. have been drifting apart. One of Molotov's obvious goals was to widen the gaps. At Berlin, the Western Three closed ranks. Dulles. Eden and Bidault worked decisively together in a unity long dangerously absent...
...board of directors of RKO met last week to take up the surprising offer of Multimillionaire Howard Hughes to buy out the corporation's stockholders. With Hughes and Noah Dietrich. No. 2 man in the Hughes empire, absent, the board voted to accept the offer, called a special meeting of stockholders to vote on the proposal March 18, about two weeks before the deadline set by Hughes...
...this show of crashing unanimity, one M.P. was conspicuously absent: Milovan Djilas, the purged and disgraced Vice President who had gabbled too much about the rigid Marxism and flexible love lives of his fellow top Communists (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.). "Political pornography," one of his critics called it. Djilas sent word that he had resigned his seat. To succeed him as Assembly President, the members last week unanimously elected Mosa Pijade, 64, a gnomelike little man whose friendly, avuncular air (covering the steely core of a seasoned revolutionist) has earned him the nickname Cica (uncle). He joined the Communist...
Even the fine scene between mother and son is as masculine in its appeal as a trumpet call; it is the cello note, rather than poetry itself, that is absent from the play. Coriolanus is more Roman and less human, more heroic and less tragic than Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra. Yet that is to describe rather than disparage it. Even with faults of production, this Coriolanus, as staged by Cinema Producer John (Julius Caesar) Houseman, makes a procession of graphic scenes. Its greatest weaknesses stem from miscasting. As Coriolanus, Hollywood's Robert Ryan is never large-statured...