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...this coordinated shake-up was a portentous rumor that began to buzz through Europe's chancelleries as 1958 waned. To celebrate the inauguration of the Common Market, so the story ran, West Germany planned to make the Deutsche Mark freely convertible currency-a move that might well transfer the banking capital of Europe from London to Bonn...
Cabaret humor is apt to be as brittle as a glass swizzle stick. Moved to the big, turbulent Broadway stage, it usually breaks. But two expert swizzlers have managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells...
...mission, which has become the loneliest diplomatic outpost in the world. Every fortnight or so The Hague gets a frantic cable from Slingenberg, protesting the circumstances. The Dutch, who see no way to help him out of his predicament, intend to leave him to his own devices until his transfer comes through next December...
...terse little paragraph on the back page of Pravda disclosed last week that "Army General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov has been released from his duties as chairman of the State Security Committee in connection with his transfer to other duties." The announcement, which was not even repeated on the Soviet radio, was as brusque as it was brief. Just as in the case of the disgraced war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, it failed to say what the general's new duties would be-and Zhukov has yet to turn up in another post...
...while Brazzaville rejoiced last week, Paris received the news with something of a shudder. Everywhere else, the transfer of power had gone without a hitch. In the Republic of Congo, it cost the lives of at least eight people, and trouble was not yet over...