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Principal victims of the proposal (still to be approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff) are the Boeing-built Bomarc ground-to-air missile and its bomber-spotting SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net. Four weeks ago, the new 400-mile Bomarc B failed for the seventh time in seven test flights. The test bugs and other difficulties, White testified, delayed the whole production schedule so that the last of the whole 1,000-missile anti-bomber system would not be in place until 1964, when the threat of Soviet bombers would be long since displaced...
...Semi-Detached (by Patricia Joudry) concerned the occupants of a two-family Montreal house. It was a house divided by prejudice-by the sniffiness and anti-Catholicism in an English-speaking family, by the rigidity and fear of worldly ways in a French-speaking one. For a while the play dribbled along in terms of trivial snags and snubs and slurs; then Playwright Joudry took to sounding louder and darker chords: tempers boiled over, a violin-playing hand was broken, the young girl in one house had a troubled love affair, a small boy was drowned...
SHORTLY after World War II, a grim, cliff-faced German named Max Beckmann arrived in the U.S. He was without honor in his own country; Hitler had branded him a "degenerate painter" and hounded him from the land. He had spent the war years in semi-hiding in Amsterdam, developing his own rainbow-hued brand of German expressionism. Imported by Washington University in St. Louis to teach art, Beckmann set about changing the course of American painting, and kept at it until his death in 1950. Although he himself was never an abstract painter, the New York school of abstract...
...slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...
...regulars includes Announcer Durward Kirby, fluttery Marion Lome, Allen Funt, with his candid camera, and Singer Carol (Once Upon a Mattress) Burnett, whom Moore considers "the one major comedy talent among girls to come along in the last ten years." There is also a list of about 35 "semi-regular" guests. This week the visitors were Jack Benny and Diahann Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual, who clinched the show. Whether he was acting "a nice Arthur Godfrey," a wide-awake Perry Como, or the aging kid next door, Moore's casual, easy humor made...