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...TIME reported: "Word appeared in the columns that Sinatra was about to buy a Palm Beach pad and a nightclub, too, so he could wage war with an established nightclub owner who had refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance...
Then, as the President of the U.S. scrawled notes on his white desk pad, Stevenson read off his suggested version of a statement. To a visitor, Kennedy admitted later that he was pleasantly surprised at Stevenson's toughness. "My God. in this job he's got the nerve of a burglar." After consulting the State Department, the CIA and the major Western allies for advice and suggested amendments, Kennedy read the final statement to the press. "I am seriously concerned." he said in words cautious but clear, "at what appears to be a threat of unilateral intervention...
Other holdovers: the Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Threepenny Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon, by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, and one sleeper, The Octoroon, a reasonably lively, reasonably funny-by-now melodrama of pre-Civil War days...
Chimp No. 65 had been trained at Holloman to work a simple system of lights and levers. He had learned that if he pushed one lever at least once every 20 seconds, he would avoid a slight electric shock in the pad of one of his feet. When a blue light flashed, he knew that if he pushed another lever in less than five seconds, he would also avoid a shock. His performance would show how much his psychology was affected by the stresses and strains of space flight...
...life. Albee is also represented in a downtown double bill of disenchantment that includes his The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Other holdovers: the Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Threepenny Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now-famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon...