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Young Lucius (Mitch Vogel) spends most of his time hanging out with a casually amoral employee of his grandfather's named Boon Hogganbeck (Steve McQueen). When Grandfather (Will Geer) and the rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly...
Before his return to Jefferson four days later, Lucius has gotten an eyeful of sparks. He has been stabbed for defending Corrie's good name against the slanders of her rotten nephew Otis ("Imagine," says a wondering Boon as he cleans out the wound, "eleven years old and already knife-cut in a whorehouse brawl"). He has found himself in the middle of a quarrel between his pals and Sheriff Butch Lovemaiden. And he has become involved in the damnedest, most exciting horse race anybody ever...
Here and there the floods left a boon. On the Kairouan plain, 80 miles south of Tunis, a three-foot layer of soil was washed away, uncovering a sizable Roman village. Inland lakes eight miles wide were created by rainfalls of 16 inches in 24 hours. The lakes are now draining down to raise the water table, and farmers are assured of at least four years of well-watered soil. Most important, the rains that battered 80% of Tunisia bypassed coastal resort areas whose hotels account for $40 million in tourist revenues annually. Even so, cancellations already total...
...adults who long ago decided that the only TV drama worth watching was the evening news and the Super Bowl, a boon awaits in a minuscule series of specials called CBS Children's Hour. That's right-children's specials. If J.T., the first offering, is any indication, children and adults alike will be stimulated, moved and entertained by a kind of drama almost never found on commercial television. J.T., which will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 13,* is an original story written by Jane Wagner and beautifully directed by Robert Young. It is, mercifully, different from...
...Pusey's first major projects after coming to Harvard in 1953 was planning a Faculty housing project on the Shady Hill site-a six-acre tract of land near the Divinity School. Though Pusey felt the project would be a boon to the University and the community, residents of the upperincome Shady Hill neighborhood-which includes some of the most distinguished Harvard faculty-felt otherwise. Alarmed by what they deemed an undesirable intrusion into the area, they opposed the project and, in a humiliating defeat for Pusey, forced the University to drop its plans...