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...must be obvious that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny, pathetic, cynical, and utopian...
Tale has announced with "greatest disappointment" that the traditional Harvard-Yale bicycle race will not be held this year. But the Yale Spoke and Wheel Society has assured the many fans of stock bike racing that it will do its utmost to revive its rivalry with the Barhandlers next year...
...notion is that many unaligned nations and wavering neutrals will be glad to stop yelling at Khrushchev, who frightens them and pays no attention to them, and start yelling at the U.S., which acts the part of a gentleman and in the past has taken their complaints with utmost seriousness. Says USIA Chief Edward R. Murrow: "Editorial writers in the non-Communist-bloc countries have just about exhausted all the known adjectives in expressing their condemnation of the Soviet nuclear tests-but they'll polish up some new ones when we begin testing." Yet the U.S. may certainly...
...Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity to state with the utmost conviction my wholehearted support for the re-election of Mayor Robert Wagner. His experience in coping with the problems of this great city cannot be matched." Then, with a bravely smiling Wagner at his side, Kennedy made a half-hour tour of the city in an open...
...manufacturers, as usual, insisted on shrouding the new models in secrecy, so as to get the utmost response from buyers during the fall unveilings. But here and there, they allowed a glimpse: a peek-a-boo of a Lark in the woods, a new Plymouth wrapped in bedsheets. In general, the new models' intermediate size is a compromise that offers greater inside roominess with reasonable outside dimensions-very much, in fact, like the cars of a decade ago. Having found that buyers insist on all kinds of fancy extras (Chevy's 1961 Corvair got off to a slow...