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...CAVE (403 pp.)-Robert Penn Warren-Random House...
...Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint in the struggle between Catalonian Christians and Moors; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V prayed before the Black Virgin many times...
...enthusiastic reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime...
Architect Kiesler's "Endless House" is neither revolutionary nor adventurous; it is merely a Stone Age cave turned inside out. WILLIAM LAGES Torrance, Calif...
...biggest price-support fiascos in U.S. Agriculture Department history was the attempt to support the price of eggs. When eggs in cold storage went rotten, the department, in desperation, turned to buying dried eggs, stored tons of them in a cave near Atchison, Kans. By the time the Government decided in 1953 that supporting egg prices hurt even the farmers, by encouraging the overproduction it was intended to counteract, total taxpayer losses passed $331 million...