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Ashbrook then lit into Powell. A mem ber of Powell's committee, Ashbrook urged that his chairman's request for committee funds be slashed by $200,000. He pointed out that committee expenses have risen from $388,000 for the four years before Powell became chairman to $633,000 for the two years under Powell's leadership. Asked Ashbrook...
...more fiercely partisan fans who cram old Fritz Pfluger's renovated cow pasture for each home game, they seem as good as the pros. Since 1958 they have scored 2,073 points to the opposition's 223, and it looks as if it may be Pflugerville über alles forever. Toddlers practice cross-body blocks under the goal posts while the high-schoolers pummel their opponents on the field. Fourth-graders get written permission from their mothers to play tackle football, and organized competition begins in the fifth grade. The junior high school team has not lost...
This kind of partnership for productivity has paid healthy dividends. Three years ago, Malaya displaced Indonesia−which had nationalized its rubber plantations−as the world's biggest producer of natural rubber. Last year, producing more than a third of the world's natural rub ber, the Malayan plantations brought in a fourth of the new nation's income. Be cause of rubber, Malayans enjoyed a high (for Asia) per capita income of $113, v. $40 for neighboring Indonesians. And because of this strong economy, Malaya may well be able to expand. Last week Britain agreed...
Like a monstrous guillotine, the wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. It cuts through sewers and subways, severs bridges and thoroughfares. It bisects a cemetery, shears off churches and dwellings. Beside a green canal it becomes an ugly spaghetti-swarm of barbed wire. Along a quiet suburban street, its spine glints with jagged glass. The wall has separated sons from mothers, wives from husbands, friends from friends...
Among the better evenings: Roots, Angry-Young-Man Arnold Wesker's honest but limited slice of lifelessness; Call Me By My Rightful Name, an interracial-triangle drama; The Connection, Jack Gel-ber's graphic re-creation of a junkie's pad; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; The Zoo Story, Albee's famed mano a mano between Natural and Ivy League Man, running on a double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen...