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...sedate group, under onetime Boy Scout Paul Siple, trudged dutifully into the countryside to examine rock formations...
...screwball wit of S. J. Perelman strangely enough fails to make this wacky plot rock his audience back on their seats with the clanky shock of his offstage writings. The play's isolated episodes, bald-faced gags, screwy curtains are sometimes hilarious, but they fail to bind together into effective farce...
...Roads built with crushed rock bought from a Florida partnership formed last July cost $1,247,000. Investigator Engel was told by engineers that $547,000 could have been saved by using sand, oil and clay binder...
...Syracuse, Denver, St. Louis, Little Rock, Louisville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Springfield (Ill), Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, the local clergy seemed reasonably well pleased, but in many cases the franker ministers agreed with other civic leaders that from 80 to 90% of the audiences were more or less regular churchgoers, that the Mission failed to "reach the unreached," and that its principal value was to "give church people a shot...
When they had finished, Charley systematically destroyed the sand painting, for it would have been bad medicine to leave it as it was. The destruction took 40 minutes. With the help of Mary Peshlakai, a Navajo squaw who had come with them from Window Rock, Ariz, to weave blankets for the Museum's Indian exhibit, Charley and the Short Man's Grandson muttered, groaned, sprinkled corn pollen over the figures they had painted. Then they stood to one side and chanted. It was not funny. It was moving. Still chanting, Charley carefully shuffled over the design, destroying...