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...Sometimes people throw things back. Last December, when Merrick flew off the handle and fired Director Tony Page for not making cuts in Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer and a sudsy right at Merrick's head and sent him staggering into a backstage trash barrel. It is on such occasions, of course, that Merrick's critics up periscope and fire all tubes. He has been called "Typhoid David" and "Captain Hook" and "the Krishna Menon of Broadway." Director Tony Richardson says: "He's like a woman-sweet and bitchy at the same time." Anthony Quinn...
...blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger stab at theater of the absurd that lacks lonesco's lunacy or Pinter's menace. It seems to have come less from Williams' pen than from his penwiper...
...first wife. With 4,000 hours' flying time, Ky has only partly succeeded in letting his duties as Premier ground him. On a state visit to Formosa recently, he took time out to try a U.S. F-104 Starfighter, snapping smartly through a linked series of barrel rolls and wingovers. He commutes from his home-a converted office building at Tan Son Nhut Airport-to Gia Long Palace flying his own Alouette helicopter...
Explaining his business successes, Hammer says: "One thing leads to another. You see an opportunity, and everything after that falls in place." In 1944, Hammer saw a new opportunity when he learned that the American Distilling Co. was about to declare a dividend of one barrel of whisky per share. He bought 5,000 shares on margin-and to make his 5,000-bbl. dividend go up further, he mixed the whisky with alcohol made from potatoes purchased from Government sur pluses. The blend was sold to the wartime whisky-parched public and to other distillers. To produce the alcohol...
...choice was being debated in a small bungalow on a dusty New Delhi road. There, draped in a white longhi, Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the barrel-chested kingmaker of the Congress Party, received a stream of state leaders and other important politicians, testing the political breezes for signs of support for the various candidates...