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...Connection. Playwright Jack Gelber makes a devastating assault on theatrical illusion, presents a pad full of junkies in a formless, utterly naturalistic play that has sporadic distinction...
...lives with his ever-loving mother and writes nothing novels, sees something sweet where the beat meet to eat. In the book she is a pretty Negro, but in the film she is Leslie Caron. "I want every bit of life," he announces. So they go to her pad and really make the scene, and in the morning he drives her over to see her analyst. Soon they are sharing the same toothbrush, but he wants to write, and one night he flobs off to somebody else's pad. She flips but good, and goes ankling down the main...
...Texas' Omar Burleson, an ex-FBI agent and chairman of the purse-string Committee on House Administration, bought $86.45 worth of doodads (pen set, calendar-pad holder, etc.) for his office in Abilene, charged it off to his committee, even though he had received a specific $1,200 allowance for office supplies. On another occasion, Burleson traveled 1,128 miles by car to investigate "election matters" in Texas (his own district included), charged the trip off at 10? a mile...
...President finished his summit report on television last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), people watching CBS saw Ike's face fade from the screen to be re placed minutes later by a huge missile blasting off its pad. "For centuries, the histories of earthbound men have been filled with conflict," boomed an announcer, followed by a close-up shot of a pack of Luckies...
...bird screamed upward off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, nosed over toward the southeast, curved down the length of the Atlantic and navigated 9,000 miles before its nose cone splashed hard by its chosen target just south of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. In exactly 52½ minutes last week, the 130-ton, 75-ft. Atlas rocket set a new U.S. missile record and beat the Russians' best distance mark by more than 1,000 miles...