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...Celtic efforts to close the gap in the final minutes were stalled by the disputed ejection of Tommy Heinsohn and by Bob Cousy's fouling out with two minutes to play. Heinsohn had been the Celtics third highest scorer with 23 points. Boston was paced by Sam Jones, who scored 36 points, and Bill Russell...
There is a huge gap of communication between Reed and his miners. Reed believes, for instance, that every man in his mines is earning at least a living wage--a figure which he sets at $3,000 a year. He cannot believe that Howell has a large box full of pay statements which tell a tale of incredibly low wages. Before leaving their jobs last fall men were drawing around $10 a day, and not working five days a week. And I found few men now working who averaged much more than $12 a day, except in the largest truck...
When Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman stayed at Roosevelt House, he found he had a bedmate-the Galbraiths' Siamese cat Ahmed, who stalked in casually through a gap between the door and the grillwork. Sparrows nest in the grilles, and dust accumulates rapidly in the hard-to-reach crevices. Several times a week, barefoot houseboys clamber up the grilles to clean dust and bird droppings from the apertures. Fascinated by the scalability of his walls, Galbraith and his sons themselves have taken to climbing like so many human flies...
...with clear, filtered water treated so that it will not damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators. MacQuitty estimates that his scheme will cost only $14 million, including the elevators and water-treatment plant. Another stop gap British scheme suggests covering the temple with a hollow pyramid sealed to keep out the water. The pyramid, says J. S. Chudha, a Kenya Indian practicing architecture in London, will be appropriate for Egypt. It could be built mostly of native materials and should not cost more than...
...with what one loathes, cherishing the sinner while hating the sin. Her transparent disgust with her characters and all their works is contagious. Technically, she borrows from Edward Albee and the theater of the absurd, but the wobbly tone of her play shows that craft will not close a gap between generations. Lillian Hellman is still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that the reformation of society produces a better crop of humans. When people were poor, society stunted them. When people are better off, society corrupts them. After three decades...