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This intimate glimpse of Jack Kennedy-and of his father-appears in a book that could only have been written by a close friend. There were few closer than Red Fay, who was an usher at Kennedy's wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier, a kay campaign aide in Kennedy's first race for the U.S. House of Representatives and, ultimately, President Kennedy's Under Secretary of the Navy-a title conferred entirely in the name of friendship...
...that's the first act--90 minutes of tedious exposition, interrupted at nitervals by flashy cabaret numbers signifying nothing, plus two musical attempts to represent the unrest which will shortly usher in Nazism. Some of the scenes and some of the songs are briefly engaging, particularly the "Pineapple" number sung by Miss Lenya and Jack Gilford, and Jill Haworth's opening carabet song. But nothing jells. The book seems to have been written as padding for an inspired score, and the score as the same for an exceptional book...
Still Couve and his U.N. allies were speaking for a broad cross section of world opinion when they demanded a quick political solution to the war. The Ivory Coast's Arsene Usher asked that the U.S. make "a lofty gesture by ending the bombings," and even Assembly President Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan argued that only a nation as powerful as the U.S. could afford to lose face in the interests of peace. Yet why should the U.S. be the only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter...
...Usher may be right, Tillinghaft admitted, "it's an open question, but I don't think that we could play an active role in these matters." Tillinghaft said that although apartheid was a topic of debate at the council of Boyden affiliates, "we have done nothing to try to change South African social policy...
...issues which emerged from the conflicting opinions of Usher and Tillinghaft was what the possible reaction of the South African government might be if the Observatory made any attempt to desegregate. Usher said that "they probably wouldn't kick us out because the Observatory is a feather in the cap of the local government. the Observatory is a useful link with Europe and the United States...