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...hard to design a ludicrous set for such a theatre--or such a play--and nearly impossible to design a workable one. But the Lowell House set, consisting of a couple of pseudo-pop-art posters flanking a Heaven platform and an Earth platform, is a gem...
...course an entire play can't be built on only one such gem of an idea. The middleaged couple also has its problems. Like the husband's throwing up whenever he's upset, and the wife's wanting another child. The daughter, who has just returned from years of psychoanalysis and college, jars everybody with her intention to share an apartment with a Columbia medical student...
...interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent is a gem...
Then, last week, disaster struck. As the 32-man crew was lowering Sea Gem so that it could be towed to a new site, two of its ten legs suddenly collapsed and the platform sank, leaving five men dead and eight others missing. With it, Britain's hopes for a quick commercialization of the North Sea gas reserves received a setback. British Petroleum has a second rig under construction, but it will not be ready until late spring...
...Gem tragedy underscores the great gambles being run in the quest for gas under the North Sea, the most treacherous body of water ever ventured into with offshore drilling rigs. That fact not only heightens the danger to crewmen but vastly increases the expense. The sturdier rigs required cost as much as $10 million apiece; to drill a well costs another $2,000,000. Not every well is a strike, nor is every strike a commercial proposition: Continental Oil Co. of England, the only other company that has struck gas in Britain's portion of the North Sea, recently...