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...London's critics first see it next month, but as it reached the Nottingham boards and was prepared for print by Faber & Faber, it seemed sharply disappointing. For all the fathoms of history through which Playwright Osborne has reached for his subject, the resulting play is hardly an inch deep-a well-narrowed portrait of a broadly complicated...
Pole Vault. Olympic Champion Don Bragg has a new world mark to shoot at. Oklahoma State's George Davies bettered Bragg's record by a full inch with a 15-ft. 10¼-in. performance last month in Boulder, Colo. Both men are sure to soar still higher...
...momentous decisions were expected, and if any were made, they were not immediately an nounced. But the job of measuring was thoroughly done. Kennedy found De Gaulle to be in accordance with the advance billing: a messianic, convinced statesman who, in six frank and open talks, came not an inch closer to accepting the U.S. view that France should cut short its do-it-yourself nuclear-arms development and live up to its NATO commitments. De Gaulle found Kennedy to be clever and knowledgeable, but still unsure in the manipulation of national power. But the personal relationship went better than...
...Concession. All afternoon, the two leaders talked, with their interpreters, in (privacy. Toward 7 o'clock, Kennedy and Khrushchev walked out of the embassy residence to meet the press; both men were smiling. Although Khrushchev had not yielded an inch on the major question?the future of Laos?raised during the long afternoon, Kennedy's spirits were up. He enjoyed sparring with the Soviet Premier, felt that he was holding his own, and even scoring a few sharp counterpunches. Trying hard not to build up any false hopes, U.S. observers said only that the talks were "frank, courteous and wide...
...with his chest. On the third, he brushed it with his chest once more. But this time the wavering bar settled back and held. For Oklahoma State's George Davies, it was a new world record of 15 ft. 10¼ in. in the pole vault-a full inch higher than Olympic Champion Don Bragg's old mark...