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Shock Brigades. At one point the Leader waxed nostalgic. Today, he said, the task of the "shock brigades of liberation" (fifth columnists) is easier by far than it was in the glorious days of 1918 when the true Heroes of the Soviet Union (men like Joseph Stalin) stood alone against the world. "Today . . . from China and Korea to Czechoslovakia and Hungary, new shock brigades have appeared in the forms of popular democratic governments." The Leader set forth a new set of rules...
...current Lillie evening has many fine, authentic Lillie moments. But much of the material-skit or song, new or old, even as famous as Three Little Fishies-is either not very good in itself or not what Bea can do best. In the past, she has been most glorious upsetting full-stage apple carts, playing hob with vast production numbers; the atmosphere here dwindles, in more ways than one, to that of a nightclub. Bea's gifts at times seem almost as wasted as they are wonderful...
...Premier. No Naguib, he made it clear that he does not want to stay in office. This week Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies will pick a new President. In the President's palace the Father of Belly spent the weekend packing, while old friends, remembering his glorious days, streamed in to say goodbye...
...Sack does something else too. Perhaps better than any other book this reviewer has read, The Butcher explains why people climb mountains. Most books chalk up a man's desire to scramble gasping up a peak to those glorious ten seconds on top, when he wipes the ice out of his eyes and gazes out several foggy feet into the swirling clouds. Sack makes much more sense. "Mountaineers enjoy the very process of climbing . . . they like climbing in itself." "There are some men," says Sack, "who believe that the means can be its own justification...
...glorious boyhood came to a close all too early. When he was eleven, his stern, unpractical father died a bankrupt, and after a year or so Sam was put to the printer's trade to help support the family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered...