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...subsurface tracks of meaning, Milk Train speeds toward a surprisingly different destination: an allegory of the temptation of Christ. As Boston Drama Critic George E. Ryan of The Pilot perceptively noted during the pre-Broadway tryouts, Chris is both St. Christopher and a Christ figure. Christopher means Christ-bearer. Chris arrives at Flora Goforth's burdened with a pack so weighty that he stumbles. In legend, St. Christopher carries a child across a river, and suddenly, finding the weight almost too great to bear, discovers that he is carrying Jesus, who in turn bears the sins of the world...
...spirit of compromise. Instead, in Bradford's company, he insists that the new contract, whenever it is signed, expire on Oct. 31, 1964. The date is meaningful. It would move the printers' contract back to coincide with that of the Newspaper Guild, whose role as standard-bearer for the printing craft unions Bert Powers intends to recoup for the I.T.U. It also falls just before the national elections, an event of such news significance that any strike called on Oct. 31 would turn the city's newspaper publishers into frantic...
...raise money for Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's annual Festival of Two Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser...
...Munich's student quarter, meanwhile, a Jerry stock market has been set up. Young German brokers buy and sell the chits that students receive when they are hired as extras. Each slip of paper entitles its bearer to work for one day for $7.50-or simply to collect $1.25 if it rains and shooting is called off. When the weather reports are favorable, chits are traded for as much as $2.50. Inclement offings will send the asking price plummeting as low as 50?. Of course the brokers take 10%, rain or shine...
...Senatorial race, Hughes will face opposition from either Edward M, "Ted" Kennedy or Edward J. McCormack Jr. on the Democratic side, and either Laurence Curtis or George Cabot Lodge on the Republican side. Primaries to pick the standard-bearer for each major party will be held in September...