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Bending over backward to avoid charges of American meddling, Secretary of State William Rogers has ordered U.S. personnel in Saigon to observe "strict neutrality" during the campaigning. But in fact, the U.S. is backing Thieu. And even if the U.S. could adopt a convincing hands-off posture, such a situation would only favor the status quo -which, again, is Nguyen Van Thieu...
...first look Follies would seem to be part of the nostalgia boom, which has America glancing myopically backward at its own past (see TIME ESSAY, page 77) and has turned the Manhattan stage into a revival revival. The trend toward old goldies began on Broadway in May 1969 with a production of the Hecht-MacArthur war horse about a journalism that never was: The Front Page, starring Robert Ryan. The play whetted the theater audience's appetite for aging stars and graying gags. After it galloped Three Men on a Horse, Our Town with Henry Fonda, Noel Coward's Private...
...many people, the theater's backward look is not only normal but necessary, at a time when Broadway is constantly worried about its fifth season ?slack. Says Veteran Director George Abbott, who worked with Sondheim on Forum: "It's so difficult to get to the Broadway theater, plus there is the cost of eating dinner out and the fear of being mugged. People have to believe they're going to see something priceless." What better show, then, than one already granted a squeal of approval? What happier tense than the past perfect? Furthermore, notes Nanette's Ruby Keeler, "people...
...Judy Sullivan McGuggart lefthanded, or did you flip the cover photo? The stitches are backward. Trust you are not the same...
...than an almshouse for many of its patients. All but 5% of the hospital's 4,800 patients are confined there involuntarily through civil court orders; almost half are geriatrics cases or mental retardees who receive only custodial care. The rest get scant medical treatment. Bryce is so backward that it does not even qualify for federal Medicare funds. The state spends only $6.80 a day on each patient, the second lowest (after Mississippi) such rate in the nation...