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...Walker led his last expedition. This time Honduras was his target. Eluding a blockade of U.S. and British naval vessels, he landed with some 100 men, captured a small town and then fled into the jungle when a British man-of-war arrived. Twelve days later, a bone-tired Walker was captured by a British naval officer, handed over to Honduran authorities, court-martialed and shot. "Had he succeeded," says Truman, somewhat unconvincingly, "he might have made a successful contribution to the organization of the Central American situation, into which he wanted to include Cuba-all of which might have...
...space without having any particular relationship to it. In 1934. Ferber began a series of wrestlers into which space entered quite naturally between the parts of the two struggling bodies. Gradually space became more and more important in his work; he whittled down his figures until flesh became bone and bone in time became purely abstract forms. The wrestling went on, but the combatants were no longer human...
...most part undistinguished. Erick Hawkins' "Early Floating"--an "exploration in the pure fact of movement," choreographed in silence--was merely a study and an exercise. As someone has so clearly said of nouelle vague films, why is it that these things are never too short? The patterns of bone and muscle in the dancers' bare legs were the most interesting part of the composition. When this is all that holds one's attention, what one is watching may be "exploration," but it is not dance...
...film, / Could Go On Singing, and buss British Juvenile Gregory Phillips, 15, who plays her son. So far, so good. Then back to Manhattan, where real-life daughter Liza Minnelli, 17, appearing on TV with Jack Paar and struggling through rehearsals for an off-Broadway musical, had fractured a bone in her foot. Finally the trolley ran out of gas, and Judy, laid low by flu in her St. Regis Hotel suite, couldn't have felt less like singing...
...bone-weary scientists had worked all night. But as they walked away from the lab, they seemed curiously reluctant to quit. They loitered in the cool dawn and stared at the eastern horizon. There, the pale glow of Venus marked the morning-as it has done so many times since man learned to recognize Earth's nearest planetary neighbor...