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...Paper Chase...
Obviously, poorer consumers hurt by the rise in gasoline prices don't have the resources to chase down to Washington and do a little are-twisting. The inflated gasoline prices that Nixon has guaranteed by allowing the free market to take advantage of the shortage, and the resultant rise in the prices of all consumer goods, hurt the poor most. And as shortages of all kinds become endemic, the poor are pushed right out of the marketplace, unable to compete with those who can afford the higher prices that small supply and large demand inevitably bring...
...many stations are limiting them to 50, 25 or even 10 gal. at a time. So the drivers must chase from truck stop to truck stop, wasting precious driving time, to keep their four-miles-to-the-gal-lon rigs running. The drivers want a generous allocation of fuel to the truck stops to keep them on the road...
...touch in Chemin de Per, which has been stylishly revived by Manhattan's New Phoenix Repertory Company, is that it is sexier than most of his other farces. Here, the adulterers actually do commit adultery as well as catapult through the wrong doors at the wrong times. The chase is carnal and frantic, and the tone is leeringly Marxian (Groucho Dept.). Rachel Roberts is having her first affair, and John McMartin is the mad man in her life. As Bea Lillie once said, it's a case of"L'amour, the merrier...
Paul C. Harris '71, who originated the program and is now the task force director, has had a postgraduate experience similar to Roth's. After Harvard he entered an executive training program at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York but quit in three months because he felt it was too constraining. He came to Boston to study music, worked for McGovern in Illinois, came back to Cambridge to work as a bartender, and finally ended up washing dishes at Grendel's Den. Then he went to Francis D. Fisher '47, director of the OGCP, with a proposal...