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...major achievement of the American musical theater," a successful attempt to create a new theatrical form: a musical play in which the element of dance mattered more perhaps than either the music or the play-a choreoperetta. Now, with the help of full color, stereophonic sound, and a wider-than-widescreen process called Panavision 70, the play has been transformed into a supercolossal $5,000,000 cinemusical. Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology...
...Wider Choice. Behind the preparations being made by Abe Abrams and his U.S. Army fighting comrades lies the decision made by President John Kennedy last spring to increase the flexibility of the nation's defenses. The main shield of the U.S. remains the thermonuclear deterrent-the strategic missiles and bombers meant to discourage Nikita Khrushchev. But Kennedy holds that the Army must also be ready to fight with gunpowder or with tactical nuclear weapons anywhere from the plains of Europe to the rain forests of Asia. "We intend to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear...
...decision to reconsider the English diplomas rose out of last spring's meeting of the Overseers. At that time changes sought included: 1) a seal and possibly other decoration on the diploma, 2) a larger format than the design approved last year, which should be 3) wider than it was high...
Oldsmobile. Unlike the Ford's, Oldsmobile's full-size 1962s have grown slightly larger. A new, horizontally-laced front grill and a squared-off rear end give them a wider, more massive appearance. For the man who wants the look but not the leak of a convertible, the F85 and the 88 feature a sheet-metal roof contoured like a cloth top, even to the ripples that lend the illusion of a metal frame supporting sagging fabric...
...While its competitors pursue diversification, producing an ever wider range of appliances, Maytag moves in the opposite direction. Since 1957, Maytag has dropped its moneymaking stove and freezer lines to concentrate entirely on the products it knows best: washers and dryers...