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Inherit the Wind (by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee) flashes back across history to 1925 and the celebrated "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. The locale, to be sure, is unspecified in the play and the names are fictitious, but there is never for a moment any pretense of fiction. John T. Scopes, the young schoolmaster who violated Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is called Bertram Gates; Henry Drummond, the lawyer who defends him, is clearly Clarence Darrow; and by whatever name, the archdefender of fundamentalism would be William Jennings Bryan...
...create special jobs for the handicapped. Few have to. In Detroit, Chrysler has placed thousands of physically handicapped workers in good jobs since 1943, thoroughly tests each applicant for what he can do, then finds a job to fit. General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...
...David Mermin of New Haven, Conn., and Eliot House; Daniel A. Rezneck of Troy, N.Y., and Duster House; E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, and Lowell House; Harvey Sobelman of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Eliot House...