Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...curtain across the world stage rustled and billowed as the cast of characters began to take their places for the most extraordinary political spectacle of modern times. To New York and the United Nations by slow boat came Nikita Khrushchev, with his gallery of satellite rogues trotting at his heels. One by one the other national leaders, of various hues of dependence and independence-Egypt's Nasser, Yugoslavia's Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Cuba's Castro, Ghana's Nkrumah -were due to arrive, all drawn, as was their right, to the General Assembly session where...
...House consistently from 1924, served for 20 years as the Republican leader, for two terms as Speaker. Then, as last year's session began, Joe Martin's world exploded around him; in a coup by the G.O.P. young guard that shocked him to tears, he was cast out of the minority leadership in favor of Indiana's tough, driving Charlie Halleck. This week, from the obscurity of his back-row seat, Old Joe, 75, evens the score in a brooding, bitter memoir, My First Fifty Years in Politics (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), as told to Robert J. Donovan...
...Carron, leader of the Amalgamated Engineers (907,000 members) suddenly made a bid to save his old friend. His engineers were committed to vote for unilateral nuclear dis armament. But Carron proclaimed, after consulting with his delegation, that he found no contradiction between the two resolutions and would therefore cast his union's big vote for both...
...rambling but intensely poetic movie he produced by hiring amateur actors and coaxing action out of them against wild festival backgrounds in Rio de Janeiro. The formula worked so well that last fall Camus returned to Brazil, hired two professional actors, more amateurs and some of the old cast-notably Lourdes de Oliveira, a supple housemaid who played the jilted girl in Orpheus-and set out to swallow one of the biggest countries in the Western Hemisphere...
...mute Helen Keller; The Best Man sketches characters who are a mile wide and an inch deep, but nonetheless offers swift, glib and enjoyable theatrical journalism about campaigning politicians in action. Three musicals stand out: the good-as-ever revival of West Side Story, with many of the original cast; the light, reminiscent story of New York's greatest mayor, Fiorello!; and a winsome Broadway analysis of Elvis Presley called Bye Bye Birdie...