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...private corporation be created to develop 110 new towns and cities. The aim is to create a series of racially integrated complexes of villages similar to that of Columbia, Md., a community that Chase helped develop. Under the plan, the corporation would raise a minimum of $10 billion in seed money to finance the communities, and the agency would acquire the land. The two agencies, Rockefeller said, "could create a whole series of new independent communities, providing adequate housing at reasonable cost, and bring together both the white- and blue-collar work force for industrial expansion...
...Gabler. The sad thing about the current off-Broadway revival is that the inner life that Claire Bloom brings to it is chilly, prim and pallid. The inner life is extremely important to Hedda, for otherwise what is left is the story of a kind of grown-up "bad seed," a woman who out of casual malice or native bitchiness burns her would-be lover's brilliant manuscript, pushes him back to drink and gives him a pistol with instructions to shoot himself...
...League lead with one loss apiece, and the Crimson must beat Brown to have a shot at unseating Cornell for the championship. Further-more, the Crimson is in the unenviable predicament of having to win virtually every game remaining on its schedule to get a decent ECAC seed and avoid the possibility of playing the first round in Ithaca...
...combined age of the participants is Methuselahistic, and the plot is not much younger. For his game, Director Joseph Mankiewicz chose such veterans as Arthur O'Connell, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn and Martin Gabel. Together, their gray thatches look like a stand of dandelions gone to seed. One good breath and their hair might vanish, two deep ones and the picture itself might be gone-and no one the poorer...
...Manhattan, a tiny, green velvet-walled shop called "i" is only five weeks old and already doing close to $3,000 business a week in items like Quince Seed Conditioner ($3), Papaya Night Cream ($9.50) and Wild Raisin Eye Shadow ($5). Co-Owners Sandy Oringer and Lois Muller started out with a mailorder offer-$2 for a jar of strawberry cleansing cream, grapefruit freshener and lemon moisturizer-that drew such response that they formulated an entire line of raw-juice and oil-based cosmetics and found a chemist to put it together...