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...economy is strong, but businessmen fret about Carter's policies...
Amoozin' but confoozin', as Daisy Mae might fret. The frost is on the turnip down in Dogpatch, but no date has yet been set yet for this year's Sadie Hawkins Day, that highly moveable feast on which Marryin' Sam will obligingly hitch a fleet-hoofed gal to any hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when...
Another Saturday night and you ain't got no putty? Fret not. Head for Music, Mirth and Madness at the Old Cambridge Baptist church, 1151 Mass. Ave. The two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. include jazz by Stan Strikland and his group Sundance, dance by Carolyn Brown, film and slides by Ken Brown, but no folk. I listed this because the flyer promises an "audience participation segment" in each show, which sounds kinky. Go, but don't tell me about...
...Education regulations, the term handicapped includes not only the blind and the deaf, but victims of crippling diseases and of emotional disorders. Naturally, some parents of unhandicapped students worry that the overall quality of education will suffer from this new kind of integration. For their part, many educators fret about the high costs entailed in training teachers to deal with the handicapped. Both the Trotter and Keefe schools, for instance, can provide the handicapped with special aids that many schools in Massachusetts, and elsewhere in the country, cannot afford...
Such are the elected handicaps of Do You Turn Somersaults?, which began a five-week run at Washington's Kennedy Center last week. The old parties who fret, fuss, fumble and fudge their way into twilit romance are Anthony Quayle and Mary Martin. But the play is nonetheless an event, for this is Mary's first appearance on the stage since I Do! I Do! almost ten years ago. Surely she deserves the rose-colored badge of courage, if nothing else, for choosing this comeback vehicle-a fragile work that could expire of its own sweetness without...