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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following the current English tour, the group returns to home base for dance-hall engagements through Christmas. No American tour has been booked as yet, but that seems only a matter of time. So far, however, The Dubliners have betrayed no hankering after Clancy-sized wealth. "It's no ambition of mine," croaks Drew, "to be a part of a pop industry. I don't want my individuality to be taken away by any success...
...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
What is Stanley's crime? Are Goldberg and McCann agents of a murder ring, symbols of organized society, or instruments of fate? What torture do the pair inflict on Stanley? Rarely has Pinter left more to the playgoer's imagination. The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse. Basically, the play lacks the athletic snap and resonance of The Caretaker's dialogue and the musky animal magnetism of The Homecoming family. But whether or not he baffles playgoers, Harold Pinter exerts a modish appeal...
Penelope, daughter of wealthy English Businessman Ronald Tree and former United States Delegate to the United Nations Marietta Peabody Tree, likes being a model because it is fun. Says she: "I've met people I love whom I probably would never have met otherwise, and I think the camera is the newest and most exciting implement since the paintbrush." Besides, although the gesture is scarcely necessary, modeling will allow her to pay her own way through Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a freshman. "It's an easy way to get money," says Penelope...
...worth of tobacco in North Carolina. In a single year, hailstorms can cost U.S. insurance companies tens of millions of dollars. Now, after helplessly enduring bombardments of hail for centuries, man is effectively mounting a counterbarrage of his own. In an 88-page report recently translated into English at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., Russian scientists say that they can suppress hail over large areas by firing antiaircraft shells into hail-producing clouds...