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...became clear during the question period that the second of the new plays follows a particular idea of tragedy. In answer to Elliot Norton, Miller explained that he believes Hamlet and Oedipus are the two greatest tragedies ever written, although not the best constructed, because they are based on the generally tabooed psychology of the family situation. In his own writing, he said, all men are capable of being tragic characters, regardless of their position in society, since they are all part of a family group. And in the psychological sense, all share feelings of patricide and other unconscious desires...
...will be needed when the mines and mills are all at work. For the families of the 2,000 miners who will go to work for Algom and Consolidated Denison, the Ontario government has set aside a lakeside site of 396 square miles for the new town of Elliot Lake, within easy commuting distance of the mines. The mines will be taxed to support the schools, hospitals and public agencies of Elliot Lake. The townsite has already been carefully zoned, should begin to materialize...
Algom, unable to wait, moved into Elliot Lake this year, and began building bachelor dormitories for its construction workers, can convert them later into apartments for families. "If uranium proves to be a long-range proposition," said one of Elliot Lake's planners, "we see no reason why this town shouldn't grow to 20,000." For Pronto's executive and professional staff Hirshhorn put up a community of ultramodern ranch houses along the shore of Lake Lauzon...
Died. Robert Elliot Burns, 63, author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang; after long illness; in East Orange, N.J. Burns robbed an Atlanta grocery of $5.85 in 1921, was sentenced to six-to-ten years on the chain gang, escaped and fled to Chicago, where he married and became the $20,000-a-year editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine. Recaptured in 1929, he served another year, escaped again and wrote his colorful account of abuses in the prison camps. His civil rights were restored by the state parole board in Atlanta...
...Commons on the day Eden took over. But the back-bench seat (actually on the front bench), which he firmly intends to hang onto, was standing ready and vacant for him. "The House has today lost one of the greatest frontbenchers in all its history," said Tory Walter Elliot, "but the backbenchers have gained the greatest backbencher of all times...