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When a long-dormant volcano spewed molten rock over their windswept Atlantic island in October 1961, the 260 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were rescued and brought to never-had-it-so-good Britain. Last week, after a year's exposure to the packaged joys of the affluent society, the hardy, forthright islanders decided that they had never had it so bad. In a secret ballot to decide whether or not they should return to a primitive, precarious existence on their isolated island, adult Tristan islanders voted overwhelmingly, 148 to 5, to return home...
Even so, he loved them both-"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet when Mikoyan settled down to serious discussion of Cuba. During Mikoyan's small-talk sessions with Stevenson, some U.S. officials spoke of the possibility that the Russian was waiting to see President Kennedy before really doing business...
...resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and maybe make a quick side trip to California...
...coup and a business risk. The sense of life that Woody talks about when he reaches 40 disappears from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely because Howard Da Silva is the most vivid human being we see, and because the success of the Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie, Inc., or whatever it was called...
Throughout this love vs. Great Neck conflict Da Silva shows himself as one of the richest actors on the American stage, capable of humor and sadness, broad power and fine detail. If In the Counting House does little else, it suggests the range of his abilities...