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Though the scorcher showed some signs of abating last week, at its height it sent temperatures from the tip of Lapland to the boot of Italy soaring into the 90s day after day. Palermo recorded 105°, Cannes 98°, Helsinki 90°. In Stockholm's outskirts, where the mercury rose to 95° for the first time since 1811, a heat-crazed elk burst out of the woods, plunged into a suburban swimming pool and splashed madly back and forth before finally being rescued by amused firemen. While Moscow shivered under cold blasts from the north that plunged...
...pair of step ladders. The Stage Manager also narrates background for us, guides the players, bridges time gaps, comments on what happens, doubles as a druggist, minister and an unnamed the woman (in early drafts of the play he took on several of the children's roles to boot), and dismisses us after each...
...spoke of "clean anger" and struggle as concommitants of any caring and lucid analysis of our social condition. Most of the tenants going on strike have already intuited the deeper reality--perhaps because they are on the butt end of it--and have come up with necessary virtues to boot. Pillsbury will now have to decide, "on balance." Whether to side with them or evict them. James A. Sleeper School of Education
...Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, a degree holder in economics from the Wharton School of Finance at Penn, former coordinator of the Citizens Commission Inquiry into U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam, a one-time VISTA volunteer, an anti-war activist and a good writer to boot...
With Gerald Ford's proposals for increased taxes on oil, the good old six New England states are getting the boot again...