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...land once rich with promise, is slipping fast toward financial failure and harsh dictatorship. Thanks to Nkrumah's reckless spending, hard currency reserves are half what they were four years ago. And thanks to the pressure of left-wing extremists around him, Nkrumah is inching closer to the brink of Communist control of the country he led to independence...
...five days last week, Latin America's biggest and most advanced nation hung perilously on the brink of a civil war that no one wanted. In the name of democracy, one Brazilian army was ordered to attack another, which was determined to defend the constitution. A naval task force from the north steamed toward the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and air force fighters dived low over bristling antiaircraft guns in the southern state capital of Porto Alegre. At the end of a confused and passionate week, the longing of Brazilians for stability seemed to give promise...
...survived the crisis, had lost only one singer and the season would open on schedule on Oct. 23 with Leontyne Price in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. It was unlikely that either management or musicians, whatever the possible payoff, would ever walk so near the brink of a canceled season again...
...jaundiced fallout. Written by Novice Playwright Eric Rudd and built around a 1970 summit conference, The Interpreter was as uneven as the Manhattan skyline. But its central, climactic scenes, played by a cast that includes Richard (Advise and Consent) Kiley, were alive with theatrical tension, swaying giddily on the brink of thermonuclear...
Swainson stepped into the shoes of Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, whose six terms of financial feuding with Michigan's Republican legislature had teetered the state to the brink of bankruptcy. After Soapy, anyone would have looked good to the G.O.P. legislators, and Swainson looked especially promising: he was elected on his record as Lieutenant Governor, as a state senator, and as a World War II combat veteran who lost both legs below the knee. The legislators were delighted when Swainson dropped around to pay them a surprise visit on the opening day of their 1961 session...