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...National Asset. The President covets his precious hours along the Pedernales the way a miser covets gold. Because of their effect on him, the 438 sun-baked acres of the L.B.J. ranch may be as much a national asset during the Johnson presidency as all the vaults in Fort Knox. To some 75 reporters attending a ranch barbecue - and John son's first live TV press conference in nearly a year - the President just did not seem the same man who had walked out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue five days before...
...Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability not an asset. So two years ago, Russia scrapped the system and went back to the old ten-year plan-with the result that this spring not one but two grades reached graduation...
France, mired in a state of musical bankruptcy ever since World War II, could always boast one major asset: Pierre Boulez, 41, the leading voice of the modernist school of composers and a gifted conductor as well. But in 1959, Boulez suddenly deserted Paris to live in Baden-Baden and work with the progressive Southwest German Radio Orchestra. He left, he said, because "the organization of musical life in Paris is more stupid than anywhere else. France has completely lost her importance. Nothing advances...
...before she met her programmer, Press Agent Pat Curtis. It was business at first sight. Two weeks after their first encounter, they met to plan her career in minute detail. Now, they share and share alike as equal partners in a company in which Raquel is the chief asset-an asset that Constant Companion Curtis shrewdly manages by camping much of the time at Raquel's 13-room Roman villa...
SWEET CHARITY (Columbia). Cy Coleman's score and Dorothy Fields's lyrics are spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...