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...first significant upturn after a shocking plunge. From an annual rate of about 2.4 million in 1972, housing starts had nose-dived to a yearly pace of only 880,000 by last December; in the first four months of 1975, starts stayed flat at a bit below 1 million. Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that the May figures "seem to indicate that a recovery is under...
Explains Jane McMichael, director of the National Women's Political Caucus: "In previous years, women were running for office-lower office-as a sort of hobby at age 56. Now more and more young professional women are making politics their career." Yet only a few, like Carla Anderson Hills, 41, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, have been able to break into what is still a male bastion: appointive jobs in the Executive Branch...
...Minor Figure. The last two years of her odyssey brought Alpert some stability and peace. Tired of hearing anti-Semitic remarks while using such false names as Blake and Davis, she listed her name as "Carla Weinstein" with a Denver employment agency, and was referred to an Orthodox Jewish girls' school run by two rabbis. There she did office work, counseled the girls and found the rabbis intelligent and kind...
...Dean as his son Bernard, both of whom have learned to accept the pedestrian nature of their lives. The director would have done well to tone down the simpish qualities of Bernard as a child--the play is clear enough on that point without the necessity of aping it. Carla Dragoni is very good as Willy's one-time lover. She is willing to take some chances in bringing the character alive, and the gamble pays...
...world that infuriates me, it's sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...