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HOUSING STARTS, which hit a record 2.2 million last year, will slip back to 2,000,000 or a bit less; last year's rate was simply too fast to be sustained. But housing completions, which lag six months or more behind starts, will rise to a record 2.1 million this year from 1.7 million last year, and the money spent on new housing will grow 17.5% to $47.7 billion. Moreover, the Americans moving into all these new houses and apartments will have to furnish them. The 1971 housing-start record practically guarantees banner sales this year for makers...
...hall of the big house, the child cries out for his mother. No answer. Then he looks up the stairs and sees her stumbling down toward him, arms outstretched, screaming. As she comes closer the boy can see that her throat is cut; blood is spilling over her slip and onto the staircase. She falls and dies at his feet, eyes open in horror...
...footloose heir with a wallet and a head full of dough. Heroine Jennifer (Tippy Walker) is a flighty little psychopath with a couple of nasty habits-bitchiness and dope. After leading Marcus a merry chase from Venice to New York City and back again, she gives him the slip. He returns to the U.S. and settles down in an apartment in New Jersey, of all places, to try to forget. Jenny, by now badly strung out on heroin, finds him and does her balancing act once more -this time on his balcony. He rescues her, she has hysterics. To quiet...
...Blue Slip. Senators play a major role in the selection. They are invariably consulted in advance of a nomination, and they have an unwritten but real veto power over the President's choice. Senate practice blocks confirmation of any candidate for the district or circuit bench who is unacceptable to either of his home-state Senators. James Eastland of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sends both of the Senators a blue slip bearing the nominee's name, and if either fails to return it, the nomination is abandoned...
...play is very undramatic. Williams relies heavily on his uncanny ear for colloquial speech, and his ability to not let slip a false line. The script, however, has several defects. It does not develop the potentialities it introduces and misses the brutal impact it could have had if the plot and characters were more fully developed. Moreover, the long soliloquies which are made to carry most of the burden reveal little about the characters and at least one, Violet's, is totally superfluous. The play is hard to digest, but it does leave one with enough of its strange, bittersweet...