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...should put everyone except the delegates outside and let them watch through television. I wouldn't even let the press and television men wander up the aisles to interview everybody right in the middle of the proceedings. With all these people in there, the whole thing has just gotten too cumbersome...
Talk-Weary. In the talk-weary halls of Geneva, Soviet maneuvers were just as devious. The nuclear test-ban talks sessions had gotten down to discussing about how many on-site inspections a year would be permitted. The U.S. and Great Britain wanted about 20; fortnight ago Russia consented to three. Though U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth rejected the Russian offer as "ludicrous and completely unacceptable," he added hopefully: "At least we now know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing...
...calm the junior officers, who are still forcing senior officers to resign, and to give government clerks a 60% raise to discourage the taking of graft. Problem is where to find the money. Chang's men claim they could get it painlessly by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of Rhee's ministers. Privately, they admit such confiscations would be only a drop in the bucket. They would like to have the U.S. foot the bill, but the U.S. is more likely to reduce its aid than to increase it. Only alternative, claim Chang's strategists...
These are but a few of the factors to be reckoned with in essaying a successful staging. The current production at the American Shakespeare Festival has a great many virtues. Fortunately, director Jack Landau seems to have gotten most of the nonsense out of his system in his Twelfth Night and has, for a change, approached Antony--given its cast--with a welcome sense of responsibility. Enormously aided by Tharon Musser's lighting, by Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic but effective settings and stunning costumes (which range from a black-and-gold tent-like shroud in which Cleopatra commits suicide...
...Railroad isn't necessary, and it'll just disappear.'' But the majority were clearly ready and eager to ride the rails again. None will be happier than Commuter Thomas M. Goodfellow, president of the railroad. "Driving to work from my home in Garden City has gotten to be a damnable nuisance," he says. "When we settle the strike, I'm going to be the first commuter on the first train...