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Change of Atmosphere. There is no doubt that a Kennedy Administration would start off with a national roller-coaster ride across the New Frontier. Kennedy is well aware of the political grace period-he thinks it is about 90 days-for a new Administration, plans to move fast, with a far-reaching program of social and economic legislation at home and some bold ventures in the field of foreign policy and national defense. His first concern is to beef up and streamline the armed forces. And, sidestepping the nations of Western Europe, he gives his highest foreign policy priority...
...Those who can afford it ride sputtering convoys of motor scooters, complete with snug-sweatered girl friends perched behind. Besides the slashers and the holdup artists, there are the bobby-soxers and song faddists, who burst into Los Cerrillos airport last month to greet Canadian Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride, a character in far sharper threads who bills himself...
Life in this country is only described in passing ("the tricky proliferation of America: an unfolding maze of Saturday movies, roller skating rinks, picnic grounds, church ladies, colored people...") but the beginning of the story has already indicated what effect it has had upon her parents: "They use paper napkins instead of the linen, rolled up in napkin rings; they like Pepperidge Farm bread and even Jello." The tale is, on a number of counts very sad, Miss Halley's prose is rich and evocative, and the story's exquisite construction succeeds in delaying the point until the very...
...show and the playhouse are massive. Built of granite, marble and glass, partly sheathed in bronze, the theater has a 3,200-seat auditorium that suggests a modern Met. The orchestra pit is wide enough for 76 trombones in slide-out profile, and the actors all but use roller skates to move about the 7,650-sq.-ft. stage, which cozily holds Camelot's 17 brilliant sets...
...Baptist Church, practices open Communion and has fought segregation for years. He tells businessmen that "the profit motive is ethically bankrupt." A staunch believer in church-state separation, he wants religious teaching banned from all schools, nevertheless dubs religious opposition to Kennedy "prejudice," and slaps Baptist extremists as "Holy Roller Catholics who are creating an emotional authoritarianism which is far more rigid than Roman Catholicism...