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...exactly retire without managing a few flicks of petty malice. His electoral commission arbitrarily awarded four Senate seats that had been won by Guzmán's party to the opposition, thereby giving Balaguer's Reformists a majority in the Senate. In perhaps the meanest stroke, Balaguer's sanitation workers suspended trash pickups during inauguration week, forcing Guzmán supporters to work overtime to clean up the city in time for the ceremonies...
...still close enough to Manhattan to run in for a Broadway play but are spared the drudgery of daily commuting. They no longer wander in late because of railroad tie-ups, and they tend to stay to clean up the day's work rather than flee at the stroke of 5 p.m. to catch the next train. Some firms have even been able to lengthen their formal work week. The Olin Corp., whose 1969 move from Manhattan to Stamford led off the exodus to Fairfield County, cut its lunch period from one hour to half an hour; Union Carbide...
...shake-up was another stroke of luck. It separated Puzo from his civil service security blanket and drove him to the offices of Magazine Management. The company owned such macho publications as Male, Men and Man's World. Puzo wrote battle stories. "I became an ace pulp writer," he recalls. "I wiped out whole armies. I wrote a story about an invasion in which I killed 100,000 men and then later read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because...
Finally, he seduces his Jewish constituency by clapping on a Tevye hat and fiddling on the roof of his mouth. Felled by a heartattack, or possibly a stroke, Davis ends the evening singing that potent crowd- pleaser, What Kind of Fool Am I?, the song that probably contributed as much to the initial success of Stop the World as The Impossible Dream did to Man of La Mancha. Fool, Gonna Build a Mountain and Once in a Lifetime are the consolation prizes of an extremely tedious evening. The audience seems almost to come into the theater humming them. T.E.Kalem
DIED. Harold Rosenberg, 72, author (Saul Steinberg, Barnett Newman) and art critic of The New Yorker; of a stroke, in Springs, N.Y. Rosenberg's essays on Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Motherwell and Rothko, whom he called action painters, helped legitimize the first New York school of abstract expressionism...