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...class family and friends. His wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents, not telling Jimmy that she is pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress. In the end, his wife returns; the baby has miscarried and Alison is now broken enough to resume in resignation the aimless life in the attic flat...
...part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them. At long last, the state and federal governments have agreed to extinguish the great fire by the drastic, costly method of digging it out of the ground...
Black Gold. The effects of American aid to Libya are everywhere: the desert is beginning to bloom under U.S. irrigation engineers in places such as Wadi Caam, barren since the Roman aqueducts crumbled away. Last year the U.S. built 37 schools and equipped five teachers' training colleges (the nation has only 25 college graduates). In what may prove the greatest boon of all to the Libyan standard of living, after four years of probing the desert crust for oil, Esso Standard (Libya) last month drew an astonishing 17,500 bbl. a day in a test run of its first...
...prize example of the master's ecstatic old age, and the Metropolitan's seventh El Greco. Most famous among the other six are the magnificent Portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara and the unique View of Toledo. The Cardinal keeps all the bloom of the painter's passion, but Toledo has suffered and so has the fabulous new Vision. One New York critic complained that the Metropolitan's restorers had understood "El Greco in terms of 20th century expressionism...
...tightens the money market. So far this year, mortgage money has not had to compete seriously in the money market because business has kept its capital expansion low. But as home building picks up and improved business sends more firms to the money market, tighter money could take the bloom off the housing boom. Fortnight ago, the Federal National Mortgage Association reported that it purchased more mortgages in the first quarter of this year than ever before, indicating that banks and other lending institutions are beginning to have trouble finding takers for their mortgages...