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...Dylan Thomas and Charles Laughton, alone and with supporting actors, have proved and proved again. Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, the most important work on the Poet's bill, is avowedly a radio play. David Campton's two curtain-raisers, A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori, also depend almost entirely upon dialogue and sound effects. The faults of the three lie not in their form but in their functioning: though competently made and well staged and acted, their impact is weak...
Whether or not the issue is brought before the Faculty's next meeting in May, he added, will depend on "how it is handled before then." One member of the University asserted that "our only hope is boredom...
Protect Which Jobs? About 4,500,000 workers-one in 14-depend on foreign trade for a living. Since foreigners must sell to the U.S. in order to buy from the U.S., it follows, said Ike, that "the defeat of the trade agreements program would destroy far more jobs . . . than it could possibly ever preserve." But the President was not willing to rest his argument on self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies...
...import quotas cause all sorts of ruckus abroad. Though the U.S. consumes 55% of the free world's oil. it has only 15% of the free world's reserves, enough to last a dozen years at current production rates. As consumption rises, the U.S. must depend increasingly on foreign oil if it wants to maintain even that slim ration...
...country might turn to the Soviet Union if its demands were not met. He warned: "Distinction must be made between friends and those who sit on the fence. While the latter are the recipients of large-scale aid from both Communist and Western countries, the former have to depend on their allies alone." More moderately, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia and Thailand's Prince Wan Waithayakon echoed the Pakistan representative's plea for "more...