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...away from the distractions of her exuberant 13-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. Weekends she spent at home with her husband (a retired New York City policeman) and the kids. She studied the stage set carefully, worried over the number of stairs she had to climb, and threatened to wear magnetic clamps on her shoes. A major concern was her stage children. "If I have to pick up those kids," she said, "I'll get a hernia or something." With Translator John Gutman, Farrell changed some of the libretto's more flowery passages...
Unconfirmed reports yesterday indicated that the Leverett House lighting bill has reached $38,000, and the Quincy bill $27,000. And reliable sources in Dunster expressed confidence that both bills would climb still higher...
...setter caught on, Brunswick's stock began to climb, and Bensinger found it easy to trade the stock for new companies. He took over nine firms, including St. Louis' A. S. Aloe Co., the nation's second largest distributor of laboratory and hospital supplies (first: American Hospital Supply Corp.), MacGregor Sport Products Inc., and Owens Yacht Co., the second biggest U.S. builder of cabin cruisers, behind Chris-Craft. With the new companies, the bowling division's share of the company's total sales has dropped from 75% to about 60% in the past two years...
...rights for a six-mile stretch of the famed Restigouche River in New Brunswick, where he hopes to set up a camp and catch the big Atlantic salmon that course up the stream each year. He can afford it: since Brunswick's stock has been on its steady climb, the 360,976 shares owned by him and his wife are worth over $25 million...
Last week President Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman...