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...tightrope is symbolic and means dealing with the tenuous Laotian coalition government. The elephants are real and are usually ridden at every Laotian boun (festival). Len Unger finds the boun a boon for he is an excellent ele phant rider...
Frozen Force. In piling up his ele gant string of credits (among them: 13 Hitchcocks, six Markhams, scripts for General Electric Theatre, Alcoa, Goodyear, Schlitz Playhouse), Writer Silliphant has become known as television's thinking man. His scripts, say his devoted admirers, may occasionally be a little short on "heart," but they always have an esoteric slant that is uniquely Silliphant...
...prospects for further improvement are good." Moving Sideways. In its July monthly letter, the First National City Bank of New York cautiously clouded its crystal ball, noted that "the good and bad ele ments in the business news have continued roughly in balance in recent weeks and the overall measure of activity has moved broadly sideways." In San Fran cisco, James Black, chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, the West Coast's largest public utility, took a serious view of the economy's uncertainty, said it spurred the kind of "depression-maybe" talk that was last heard...
...here for an agreement." By day's end the two men had compromised their final difficulty: Stephens cut his five-year contract demand in return for a softened version of the weekend premium plan. In negotiations last week in Manhattan, the technical details were worked out. The major ele ments in the settlement: ¶ For the industry: a threeyear, no-strike contract, the first in 20 years...
Summer in La Mancha is as fiercely hot as winter is bitter cold. In July, when the temperature rose to 104°, two bears died. Grutzius buried the bears beside the ele phants. Eventually Madrid's Society for the Protection of Animals (a not very aggressive outfit in the land of bullfighting) belatedly arrived on the scene. All that was left of the once-proud circus Holzmuller was the midget, his dog, five emaciated bears, a scraggy monkey, three performing dogs and one eagle, all too weak...