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...hilarity, in Who Was That Lady, begins at home, and ends there. Once the FBI gets involved, the fun that is meant to snowball proceeds to melt. The silliness, instead of turning cartwheels, drags a leg; the gags cheapen, the situations crumble. Acute FBItis sets in; then comes that death rattle of farce, when the play is in infinitely worse trouble than the characters. For all its earlier bounciness, Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? eventually seems as long-drawn-out as its title, and pretty nearly...
Beethoven: Trio No. 7-"The Archduke" (Emil Gilels, piano; Leonid Kogan, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Monitor). Three virtuosos demonstrate that the Red Russians can do as well as Whites. The players melt their individual talents into a superlative ensemble performance which makes this latest version of an exquisite trio close to irresistible...
OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
...metal, it may not soften, and proper insulation may keep the interior cool enough for the animal to survive. The re-entry body of an ICBM can be made solider and stronger than an inhabited satellite, but it must hit the atmosphere suddenly, and even if it does not melt, the enormous forces of deceleration will be too much for a living passenger...
...stand former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, now chairman of National Steel Corp., the country's sixth largest steelmaker. Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had a thorny question waiting: Since National Steel is operating at 80% capacity v. 98% early in the year, could it not melt customer resistance, push up the operating rates and still maintain profits by cutting prices? Answered Humphrey: "That is what you think. I do not think...