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...this Off-Broadway import from England, the setting is a boiler room, and virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance...
...other incorporated cities may be either outlying areas or, like opulent Beverly Hills, an enclave within the central city. Most U.S. cities have a single downtown core, but Los Angeles has dozens, such as Alcoa's new Century City complex in West Los Angeles, or a new behemoth shopping center in the San Fernando Valley...
Died. Robert H. Friedrich, 76, professional wrestler, known as "Strangler Lewis," a Wisconsin farm boy who started throwing his beef around the ring at the age of 14 when he weighed 200 lbs., grew into a 270-lb. behemoth and, with fearsome mien and paralyzing headlock, crunched foe after foe in the days before the "sport" abandoned all pretense of honesty, losing but 33 of his 6,200 matches in a 44-year career-which made him one of the highest paid athletes, with earnings of more than $4,000,000; of complications following a stroke; in Muskogee, Okla...
...goes by that I don't look at somebody's business." Cummings, who will turn 70 this fall, is a Canada-born, Chicago-based connoisseur of fine art and fine companies. His Consolidated Foods Corp. (TIME, June 24) has made corporate acquisitions and become a food-industry behemoth, with sales last fiscal year of $830 million. Last week Cummings announced the result of his latest look into somebody else's business. Consolidated agreed on a merger in which, for $140 million in stock, it will acquire United Artists Corp...
...great caged goose. Standing on one of its flaring delta wings-large enough for 100 parked autos-four technicians looked as tiny as crickets. The whole craft was only 27 ft. shorter than a football field. Gleaming white against the backdrop of a gloomy hangar at Burbank, Calif., the behemoth was shown off for the first time this week by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. It is a $1,000,000 full-scale mockup of the Lockheed 2000, the plane that the company hopes will become the nation's first supersonic passenger transport...