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...Period of Adjustment, a comedy in which Tennessee Williams turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth. Among last season's worthiest survivors: Lillian Hellman's corrosive Toys in the Attic; Paddy Chayefsky's sensitive, mystic and comic The Tenth Man; and The Miracle Worker, the superbly acted story of young Helen Keller and her teacher...
Highlighting the meet was a sprint duel between Bruce Hunter and Dartmouth's Charlie Brown, who edged out Hunter in the 50 yard freestyle last year. This year Hunter reversed the honors, nipping Brown by a tenth of a second in the 50 with a time of 22.4, and then making his revenge complete by beating him again in the 100 yard freestyle in 49.6. Bill zentgraf took third with a mildly disappointing time...
Through previous centuries, eating changed by nearly imperceptible degrees, and mostly toward just getting enough. Now big forces buffet food. For the first time in history, the U.S. has produced a society in which less than one-tenth of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce. In this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume. Refrigeration, automated processing and packaging conspire to defy season...
...singers hope to get one-fifth from Glee Club alumni, and the rest from Boston businessmen who have promised to make donations once Tour plans are definite. So far, Club alumni have contributed less than a tenth of the total, and members of the Tour group and their families over half...
...tithe-literally, "tenth"-is simply a tax of a tenth of one's income. The ancient Israelites paid it, and Christians carried on the custom; the Synod of Macon in 585 made it compulsory under threat of excommunication. After the Reformation, the Protestants continued tithing until the custom fell into disuse during the last century, except with the Mormons, the Seventh-day Adventists, and several other groups, which have flourished on it. Since World War II, however, tithing has staged something of a comeback among Protestants, though not among Catholics...