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...France there are 208,250 building contractors, 90% of whom employ fewer than six workers. The smallest contract is sublet to a myriad of tiny enterprises. If they have the luck to find an honest contractor, the French couple may have the pleasure of watching squads of carpenters, masons, plasterers and plumbers move on and off the job with scant regard for each other or for the order of their work, and of seeing walls lie bare for months at a time. The average time to complete a French house: 2½ years...
...storytelling, moreover, The Flowering Peach runs aground even before the rains have ceased. The characters' little habits become drearily habitual; the philosophizings employ too many and too unmagical words; the squabbles merely repeat themselves. Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
...United States enough to make serious concessions in its own restrictions. A Russian citizen in this country today has about as much chance of spying on American industry as a Yale man with a crew cut in the Urals. If the USSR intends serious spy work, it would hardly employ Russian nationals...
...fantasies of the mad. Still others are made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures of the sort Giacometti and George Grosz were later to employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed him; he had them under the yoke...
PHILIPPINE OIL REFINERY, built and owned by Caltex Inc., will be the islands' first and the largest private investment in the Philippines. The $30 million plant, just opened 72 miles south of Manila, will employ 450, start with a refining capacity of 13,000 bbls. of crude oil a day for the expanding Asian market...