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...repulsively alluring, though not in the same way the book was. Sagan's sensuous sentences suggested the presence of horror by wreathing softly about it; the camera pries into its morbid subject like a coroner. And the meanings that the novelist saw through her looking glass, darkly, Director Otto Preminger sees face to face in staring Mediterranean sunlight. He loses the French style but gains some common substance...
FOREIGN AID. The Administration will ask just under $4 billion for continued foreign economic aid ($3.4 billion this fiscal year), is bracing for the usual anti-aid blasts. Last week came the first blast. Louisiana's Congressman Otto E. Passman, Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid, charged that a State Department report on how Russia is spending $1.9 billion worth of foreign aid in underdeveloped nations (see FOREIGN NEWS) was released to scare Congress into upping...
FOREIGN AID. The Administration will seek substantial increases, particularly in military support. Despite the obvious argument for such aid as a corollary to defense, the first rumblings from returnees to the Hill indicate trouble. Among the probable troublemakers: Louisiana's Otto Passman, chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that controls the Mutual Security purse strings, a bitter foe of foreign...
...Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic Ireland, The Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range...
...born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad...