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...With Quarterback Ray Brown running and passing like a one-man backfield, Mississippi swept Texas off the field in the Sugar Bowl, 39-7. Brown passed for one touchdown, set up another on an interception, and scored two himself, one on a 92-yard...
Elder of the two is Fausto Pirandello, 58, son of Italy's late, famed Dramatist Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello, and one of Italy's most decorated and honored artists (first prize at the Sixth Quadriennale, Taranto Prize in 1949, Fiorino Prize in 1953 and 1956, Gold Medal from the President of the Republic last year). For his first one-man show in seven years. Pirandello lined the walls of Milan's new Galleria Blu with 20 paintings which showed that as an artist he is haunted by the great styles that make...
...Music Man is creatively a one-man show, with book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson. One result is that it does seem created, that it displays a style, a sense of one-man showmanship. It also achieves a sustained swinging tempo; as his own triumvirate, Willson escapes all the Stop and Go, the Detour and Closed for Repairs signs of musicomedy collaborations. Boasting a brisk production, and in Robert Preston a delightful star, this 1912 tale of an itinerant con man, a musical ignoramus who invades an Iowa town posing as a bandleader, has unrationed, oldfashioned, bring-the-whole...
...authorization of voting by foreigners, and its heavy pressure for everyone to vote, disturbed the 70,000 U.S. citizens who live in Venezuela, until the U.S. embassy got them off the hook by warning them that they could lose U.S. citizenship if they voted. Also troubled by the one-man election: university students, particularly in Roman Catholic schools, where resentment ran high against the jailing, ever since September, of Rafael Caldera, once the Christian Socialist presidential hopeful. But after a spate of student demonstrations a fortnight ago, most colleges are temporarily closed. "The agitators can only stir up students," said...
EVERY illness of the President teaches that one-man government in the United States is dangerous and that Cabinet government cannot long be delayed. The simplest solution lies in the formation of a Presidential Council, which would be created by law and would give the Chief Executive, to sit at his side, at least five persons who have been nominated by him and been confirmed by the Senate. These five men would be freed from the responsibility of administering any of the departments of the Executive branch, as Cabinet secretaries do today...