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...Playwright William Alfred's harsh unvarnished view that the turn-of-the-century Irish were bewildered ex-peasants yearning for feudal authority, a leadership that became polarized in two figures: the priest and the politician. The priest, astringently played by Barnard Hughes, is torn by a mixture of pity and contempt for his people, and he exerts his authority as though he were a bouncer in a perpetually unruly bar. The politician, an arm-twisting, Jim Curley-like charmer, played with resourceful guile by Tom Ahearne, has one key speech in which he punctuates a list of catastrophes with...
Gloves vanish off radiators, goggles disappear from snack-bar counters, boots are bootlegged before they have dried out, lift passes are torn right off par kas. Poles are stolen so often that skiers drag them to restaurants and rest rooms, hide them under the bed at night...
...present. It has accepted automation, for instance. (Boston's four largest import commodities, petroleum products, sugar, gypsum, and salt are now completely handled by automated machinery. The New Boston, in addition, has begun to learn from other cities. Old South Station and the New Haven yards are to be torn down to make way for a Trade and Transportation Center which features accommodations and showrooms for visiting businessmen, very similar in concept to the proposed Trade Center in New York. Baltimore, whose port has achieved huge growth rates in recent years, took an old airport harbor that had fallen into...
...TIGER TORN Taylor, Texas...
...Verdon quit in a Gallic huff last month as White House chef, Lady Bird Johnson had already lined up his successor: Henri Haller, 43, Swiss-born executive chef at New York City's Sheraton-East Hotel, better known to gourmets as the old Ambassador (and soon to be torn down for an office building). By last week Haller's security clearance was in, and the White House announced his appointment. He was immediately enmeshed in the big blender of bureaucracy. The White House handout changed his first name to plain old Henry, and Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird...