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Destitute, deserted, covered by rags and sores, J.B. receives the Three Comforters of the Bible. MacLeish makes Zophar a broken-down priest, Eliphaz a wreck of a doctor and Bildad a soapbox-orating Communist. Guilt is their subject, and each tries to explain it away in his own fashion, but J.B. cries...
Flops & Fiascos. In the first half of 1957 alone, East Germany lost 7,400,000 man-hours because of a lack of raw materials, broken-down machinery, and all-round bad planning. The Ulbricht obsession with increasing exports has had some preposterous results. Items: ¶EastGermany offered to build oil tanks for Sweden, even though its industries were totally unprepared to produce them. The tanks cracked, some collapsed, and the whole venture became such a fiasco that its director committed suicide. ¶East German experts offered to build water works in the Sudan. Pipes and drills were shipped...
...Cave Dwellers (by William Saroyan) are broken-down performers camping out in a crumbling, abandoned East Side theater. A done-for boxer, a beat old clown, an ailing old actress are joined by a sweet young girl and a man with a trained bear and a wife who gives birth to a baby. By day they lie abed, or street-beg, or in desperation steal milk. By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream...
...moved into the streets around Central High School, it was to Democratic Editor Ashmore that U.S. Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers telephoned for a precise estimate of the strength of the forces of moderation. "I told him," drawled Ashmore. "that about all our side had left was a broken-down editor, a lame-duck mayor and a former governor who has no public office...
...Ernest Tener Weir, 81, last steelman still running a major steel company he founded, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of National Steel Corp. because of ill health. At 15 Weir started working for a Pittsburgh wire company for $3 a week, at 30 acquired a broken-down West Virginia tin-plate mill and built it into the nation's sixth largest steel company, with 1956 assets of $675 million and $664 million of sales. In his career Weir fought the Government, unions and fellow steelmakers; his is the only sizable steel company not organized by the United...