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...golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play on the Ellesborough Golf Club course near Chequers, a cloudburst doused the winning P.M.s, and soon they gave up the game...
...Establishment. "When I saw Look Back in Anger" said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned not only Wesker (Roots, Chips with Everything) but a whole cloudburst of writers turned playwrights. Among them: Pinter (The Caretaker), Arden (Live Like Pigs), Ann Jellicoe (The Knack), Brendan. Behan (The Hostage) and Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). These new dramatists led their audiences out of the drawing room and into the kitchen for a close, painful view of the cynical, life...
...motto seems to apply to the company as well as to its product. Last week, in a veritable cloudburst of activity, privately owned Morton Salt 1) announced that it will change its name to Morton International to reflect its spreading interests, 2) acquired the $28 million Simoniz Co., a maker of auto and furniture polishes, and 3) for the first time in its 117-year history issued an annual report, which showed that Morton earned a profit of nearly $6,200,000 on last year's sales of $95 million...
...will then stage a rematch of last year's championship game when the Eagles won 6.5.Even the best umbrella leaks a little in a cloudburst. Harvard goalie BILL FITZ SIMMONS stopped 43 B.C. shots, but five...
...mile Solitude course is one of Europe's hairiest: the road twists through four tortuous hairpins, uncurling finally into a long "straightaway" that is an assortment of dips, hills and fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...