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...years different organizations have claimed Adams to be everything from a "base for interterrestial visitors" to the cosmic center of the universe. And individuals who have ventured to the top have one after another described strange experiences or divine revelations which came to them via their conquering of the second highest peak in the White Mountains--nearby Mt. Washington...
...award ceremony highlighted a three-day scientific symposium honoring Whipple on his retirement as director of the Smithsonian Observatory. Some 150 astrophysicists from around the country gathered here to discuss "The Dusty Universe." Topics concerned problems in astronomy common to the theories of cosmic condensation and the evolution of the universe...
...would somehow cope. I would somehow enjoy hour after hour of cosmic depression, day after day, year after year... You would never catch me electing art instead of science, playing Hamlet instead of playing tennis... [or looking] at the 'Ho', drawer of the New York Public Library card catalog... Do you understand? I wasn't homosexual; I just desperately wanted to be cowboys with Chip or with Tommy." The Best Little Boy in the World...
...play is set in the Potted Palms Hotel, which Alex and Randy have just inherited from Randy's Uncle Harold. There are corpses in the closets, a comic policeman who wants protection money ("nobody's going to get shot unless I pull the trigger," he reassures everyone,) and Cosmic Debris, who claims to be an old friend of Uncle Harold ("Poor old Harold," he sniffs miserably. "Sometimes I think all he ever lived for were the mangoes and the potted palms.") As in any other farce, the plot finally comes unravelled with a bang--four, in fact. Afterwards, two women...
...Bernie Holmberg as their producer (both of them were "in the theater," they explain, before they inherited the hotel), and George Clark as Cousin Warren keep everything except Uncle Harold's corpse (and maybe even that) above water most of the time. Lee Abraham, who directed and also plays Cosmic Debris, stands out--he's polished and in command all the way through...