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...sharpest of the Nichols and May nightclub skits, Elaine May does a spoof on a Tennessee Williams heroine who is said to be guilty of "drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." Last week at the University of Mississippi, a young painter and art teacher was charged with obscenity, indecency and puttin' on art shows...
Since the Kremlin's sharpest barbs these days are aimed at modern art and "Western espionage," it was just a matter of time before the KGB's cops would turn up a victim whose wrongdoings combined both evils. He turned out to be a Leningrad physics teacher whose taste for abstract painting allegedly led him to join the U.S. spy service...
...world affairs. Last week they were especially upset by a twist to the lion's tail administered by none other than former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Gooderham Acheson. In a speech at West Point, Acheson bluntly appraised Berlin, NATO, and the Common Market. But Britain drew his sharpest words...
...weeks since the turning point of the Cuban crisis, U.S. stock markets have staged the sharpest rally in their history. Prices of the shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange have risen $50 billion. The Dow-Jones industrial index, which closed last week at 652.10, now stands 116 points above its 1962 low and only 83 points short of the alltime high that it hit last December. Why the rally? And how long will it last...
...occasionally oversimplified quite complicated issues, but whose heart was as big as all humanity. She never wrote "I think . . ."; she always wrote "I feel . . ." But in nurturing this legend, Eleanor Roosevelt did herself an injustice. She did feel-but she also thought. And she had one of the sharpest intellects that the U.S. has known. Did she know what she wanted? She never said so in so many words, but all of her strivings and all of her little lectures and admonitions would add up to a U.S. in which all were equal, but the rules should be changed...