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...businessmen watch for a clue to the shape of things to come were leveling off-a phenomenon that characteristically indicates that a period of recovery is coming to an end and a period of recession lies a few months ahead. The industrial production index in June barely managed to inch its way up from May's 117.5 to 117.8. June's $700 million increase in total personal income was the smallest for any month since January, and factory workers' income actually declined by $200 million. The gross national product, which had been expected to be zinging along...
...smaller parts are all done very well. The standout is the Orlofsky of Jean Sanders, a wonderfully stylized caricature. Miss Sanders seems every inch a professional, and her rich contralto gives "Chacun a son gout" just the right flavor. Both costumes and settings show up well under an especially good lighting system, and entrances and exits are managed exactly on cue without some of the fuss that attends; them in some theatre-in-the-round productions. One could wish for a more authentic, more piquant savor to the lyrics, but Die Fledermaus remains much like Gilbert and Sullivan: there...
...Call Me Meester." From the moment Kennedy touched down at the mile-high capital, a city once occupied by U.S. troops in the war of 1846-48, Mexicans made it clear that their feelings were good neighborly. A solid ribbon of people lined every inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done...
...tailored for last week's Open, Oakmonth's string-bean fairways had been tightened to only 30 yds. in width on some holes, and the enormous greens had been shaved until only one-eighth inch of grass remained. Par had been lowered from 72 to 71, so tough that only 19 sub-par rounds were shot during the entire tournament. The lead skipped around as though the golfers were playing hot potato: Gene Littler, the first-day leader with a sparkling 69, sank rapidly to a tie for seventh, and five players held the lead at one point...
Gingerly hauling Suzanne in a tin dishpan, the fugitives-among them five other women and two small boys-took three hours to squeeze through the 2O-inch shaft to freedom...