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Foreman Gardener Robert Redmond spends $8,000 a year for grass seed, fertilizer and other outdoor needs. Ferns, palms and cut flowers used indoors cost $9,000. Worried by pests that have attacked a magnolia tree planted by President Andrew Jackson, Redmond last week painted it with bands' of insecticide. The White House's annual electricity bill is $30,890, more than half of it for air conditioning, some of the rest for seven elevators, two dumbwaiters and radio-TV facilities...
...YOUNG LOVERS, by Julian Halevy (313 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.50), plants the seed of love on the sidewalks of Manhattan and watches it sprout amid the chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case...
...accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
...however, than toward good old-fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution...