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Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, by Peter S. Feibleman, is a little like a Negro Glass Menagerie. The widowed mother (Claudia McNeil) is a ferocious matriarch with a personality as forbidding as a medieval fortress. She has ringed her brood with a moat of make-believe, fearfully shielding them from the outside world. Her daughter (Ellen Holly) is retreating into a tormenting mental twilight of blinding headaches...
Brown & Root-whose founder and president, Herman Brown, died last month-is one of the world's largest construction companies. Its building crews are responsible for dozens of the burgeoning brood of refineries and petrochemical plants that have sprung up in the South and Southwest, also handled the reconstruction of Guam after World War II. Recently, Brown & Root snagged the prestigious $40 million Mohole contract to drill through the earth's crust, and it has just started construction of NASA's $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Its average yearly business: $300 million...
...interiors seen in unusual perspective, could have become merely stagy. But in Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia for a simpler, more homespun America that he evokes, but an enormous sense of melancholy...
...eminence. One of the "tennis babies" that Australia seems to breed as profusely as kangaroos, he was one of four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little man; but his greatest strength is his vicious ground game and the cunning way he masks his shots. With...
...votes, beaten not only by the victorious Laborite (11,274) but also by the upstart Liberal (9,326), who was making his party's first bid for the seat in twelve years. For several months, Macmillan has been going down to his ministerial estate at Chequers to brood in solitude over the long succession of by-elections in which Conservatives suffered severe setbacks. Day after the North-East Leicester election, Macmillan spent eight hours in his office at Admiralty House conferring with his ministers. Those being fired were in and out quickly; those being promoted stayed a bit longer...