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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 27, 1971
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‘Promises, Promises’ here Sunday
In A Return Engagement,
TAMU ARTIST SHOWCASE
Presents . . .
ROBERT GUTHRIE,
Classical Guitarist
This Former Aggie Will Be Featured In The
MSC Ballroom, 8:00 p. m. Wednesday,
November 10, 1971
Town Hall Season Tickets and Activity Card Holders
Admitted Free. No Reserved Seats.
A&M Student Date $1.00
Faculty, Staff, Patron $3.00
Other Students $1.50
Tickets & Information MSC Student Program Office
845-4671
The vastly successful Broadway
musical “Promises, Promises”
goes before Bryan and College
Station audiences Sunday in a
two-performance stand at the
Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Appearing under TAMU Spe
cial Attraction and Rotary Com
munity Series billing, the David
Merrick production with. Theatre
Now will appear in national tour
ing company format directed by
Robert Moore, director of the
original Broadway production.
Will Mackenzie will appear in
the lead as the meek but eager
and confused young man in a
huge corporation. Blocked in his
attentions to the pretty girl who
runs the office’s restaurant and
in his ambitions to rise to exec
utive status, he finds the way to
open doors of advancement.
It’s the key to his bachelor
apartment, coveted by philander
ing executives of the firm.
“Promises, Promises” has sev
eral things going. Merrick pro
duced the Broadway original,
along with “Hello, Dolly” and 50
others.
Author of the book is Neil Si
mon, stage-comedy writing champ
with ten hits in ten years, from
“Barefoot in the Park” through
“The Odd Couple” to “Plaza
Suite.”
“Promises” is the first Broad
way musical with songs by Burt
Bacharach and Hal David, ac
claimed in films and records be
fore they approached the stage.
They won 1969 Academy Awards,
one for the whole score of “Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
and the other for the movie’s
song, “Raindrops Keep Failin’ On
My Head.”
“What’s New, Pussycat?” “Al-
fie” and “The Look of Love,”
theme of the James Bond flick
“Casino Royale,” were Oscar
nominees the three previous
years.
Stage invention by Bacharach
and David in “Promises” also
gives it importance. If there is
such a thing as pop-opera, they
invented it in the modern pop mu
sic for the show. Soprano voices
are part of the orchestration.
“Promises” is based on the 1960
Academy Award winning film
“The Apartment,” by Billy Wilder
and I.A.L. Diamond.
With Mackenzie are Sy4
Balaber as the girl of his drj
Chanmng Chase as the inebrk
girl he picked up at his lo ne |J
moment, Mace Barrett
Bloom and Tom Boyd.
The show includes oil
dance numbers as staged by ]
chael Bennett.
“Promises, Promises” appi
here in the 2:30 p.m. matinee J
formance as a TAMU Special A
traction, for which all admisi
are by separate ticket. The Rota'I
Series performance will be at! I
p.m. All seats are reserved.
Laird trying for European arms reduction
BRUSSELS, Belgium <A>) —
Defense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird tried Tuesday to line up
the Western allies for a joint
approach to Moscow on reduc
ing armed forces in Europe.
Laird conferred with Lord
Carrington of Britain, Mario
Tanassi of Italy and Helmut
Schmidt of West Germany.
Earlier he collaborated with
Schmidt in presenting to the
Nuclear Planning Group — NPG
— of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization a picture of what
might happen if the Soviets
made a major attack on southern
Germany and the allies met it
with a battlefield nuclear wea
pon.
Of the 15 members of the al
liance, all but France agreed Oct.
6 to send an “explorer” to Mos
cow to sound out the possibilities
of mutual, balanced force reduc
tions. He is Manlio Brosio, the
Italian who until September was
the secretary-general of NATO.
Brosio is expected to make his
first trip to the Soviet Union be
fore mid-November.
But he does not have a com
mon allied position to present to
the Kremlin. Italy was worried
— along with Greece and Tur
key — that an agreement to cut
forces in Germany would lead
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the Soviet Union to build up its
forces already in the Mediter
ranean area.
An attempt was made to re
assure the Mediterranean coun
tries by an allied agreement that
reductions made on the central
European front should not dimin
ish security on the flanks. This
was also reached Oct. 6, but the
concern persists.
The United States and West
Germany are pushing hardest for
mutual force reductions, with
some support from Britain. An
informed source said the United
States would be interested in an
initial mutual cut of as much as
10 per cent, but official spokes-*
men say it is too early to throw
light on a figure.
Birthday ball
for Marines
November 6
The first Bryan-College Sta
tion Marine Corps Birthday Ball
will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 6, at the Ponderosa Motor
Inn, announced local Marine rep->
resentatives.
All Marines and former Ma
rines in the community are in
vited to attend the ball and help
celebrate the Corps’ 196th birth
day, noted Lane Stephenson,
president of the local chapter of
the Marine Corps Reserve Offi
cers Association.
MCROA is jointly sponsoring
the program with the A&M chap
ter of the Semper Fidelis Society
and the local Marine Corps re
cruiting office.
Persons desiring to make res
ervations for the ball should con
tact Stephenson at 846-3846 or
Staff Sgt. John Whitaker at
822-2822.
Other European allies are
more cautious because they are
concerned that across-the-board
cuts would be to the advantage
of Moscow. Any U.S. forces with
drawn would have to move back
across the Atlantic while Soviet
troops would retreat only a few
hundred miles.
Spokesmen say the discussions
on force reduction have only an
indirect connection with the busi
ness of the Nuclear Planning
Group, which ends its quarterly
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meeting Wednesday. This ses
sion brought together seven of
the allies. Their meeting opened
Tuesday with a presentation by
Laird on the over-all nuclear sit
uation, which is heavily influ
enced by the strategic arms lim
itation talks — SALT — between
the United States and the So
viet Union.
The ministers then discussed
with Laird and Schmidt the
consequence of using nuclear
battlefield weapons in a Eur
opean conflict. Officials said it
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