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Even at the best of times, the Soviet student faces the kind of admissions ordeal that makes getting into Harvard seem as easy as signing up for first grade in public school. Most university candidates sweat through ten or more zachety, or trial tests, before being allowed to take the major exams given by the government during June and July. Moreover, even a top grade is no guarantee of admission. Students with some factory or military experience have an edge in the selection; so especially have those with a well-placed friend in the party apparatus...
...This week the previewers will also be wired for sounding. Audience Surveys Inc. will start using a device that measures reactions by electrodes attached to the fingers; the electrodes measure basal skin resistance, and if a sampler is relaxed and enjoying the show, there is literally no sweat...
...appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed to ad-lib hello...
Animal images kept wriggling into the conversation, as when one boy suggested the place was "full of free beef," Another, whose sartorial splendor was soiled by an unsightly sweat stain, muttered...
...brings on his ace. Henry Fonda, in a lip-twitching portrait of a loser, appears as a homesteader en route to a 40-acre chunk of Texas with his plucky little wife (Joanne Woodward) and his young son. Though he has sworn off cards, Fonda breaks into a cold sweat as soon as he sniffs the deck, possibly because he shuffles so poorly. The imminent loss of his life savings brings on a heart attack and, with a final $20,500 pot at stake, Joanne primly takes over the hand and asks: "Gentlemen, how do you play this game...