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...anything in the world," boasts Robert Lund, GM vice president for sales and marketing. This month the company introduced its two-seater, the mid-engine Pontiac Fiero ($8,000-$ 11,000). Transmission problems have delayed the arrival of GM's new full-size Cadiliac de Ville and Buick Electra until early next year...
...afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They were going to see a Eugene O'Neill play-an important one. The play, Mourning Becomes Electra, would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours...
Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill has moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clytemnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
Significant is the O'Neill treatment of the theme: simple, straightforward. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to watch a family obliterate itself...
...operatives, "Spider Dan" Goodwin, managed to lever himself up the Sears Tower in Chicago despite efforts of affronted city firemen to hose him away. And at an airfield in New Jersey, Pilot Grace McGuire, who bears an eerie resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart, will assemble a 1936 Lockheed Electra 10E, the kind of plane Earhart used, with the intention of next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give her 21 hours of flying...