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...pair-on higher-priced lines. Although food prices are expected to edge down again after their startling climb, people are generally paying more for meals in restaurants; some restaurants even tack apologetic little notices onto the menu announcing that they must add an extra charge to steak, crab or lobster dinners. The prices of drinks are edging up too; in expensive Manhattan restaurants, a martini now mixes at $1.40. Going to the movies is a steadily more expensive pastime, and seats for Broadway musicals will soon smash the $10 barrier; one show will charge $11.90 this fall...
...thing seemed straight out of a science-fiction thriller. It floated inches off the ground, sounded like a chain saw, and maneuvered like a drunken crab. The contraption stopped alongside a plane bound for Los Angeles, and Oakland Mayor John Houlihan stepped out onto the deck, shouting into a microphone: "Gentlemen, this has been a wonderful experience! We're really going to pioneer in this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim...
...treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass...
...most exciting finish of the day came in the freshman heavyweight final; twenty strokes from the line Cornell went ahead and looked like a sure winner. Just as the Harvard crowd was moaning about losing the race, the Cornell boat stopped, as their number six man caught a crab. The Crimson slid to a 6:22.9 victory, much to the surprise of the crowd and the crew...
...tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn that drama is really a verb masquerading as a noun...