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...close for a month during December and January. To guarantee heat for their houses, consumers rushed out to buy wood-burning stoves and electric saws. One farmer who will not be touched by scarcities is Dick Shuttleworth, who lives near Muncie, Ind. He has put together a Rube Goldberg contraption that transforms his plentiful supply of manure into methane gas, which powers his lights, refrigerator and even his Ford pickup...
...ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will pass for action. As for the Great Depression during which Molly ostensibly takes place, traces of it are visible...
...Moreover, not even a qualified man with the nerve and skill of the Jackal would be enough. He would also have to be willing to leave himself open to criminal charges of tampering with evidence. "Whoever would do that would have to be crazy," says Mortimer Goldberg, technical operations supervisor at CBS Radio. In an Administration where apparently no skulduggery has been safe from exposure, it is more than likely that sooner or later the man's name would be leaked...
...recomposed, he would have to make sure that it flowed smoothly from beginning to end, with no telltale shift in tone of voice. Inflections can now be modified with a device known as a variable-speed constant-pitch tape recorder. "When we increased the speed in the past," says Goldberg, "we increased the pitch too. The voice sounded like Donald Duck's. Now we can pick up or slow down without changing the pitch." Background noise can be simulated by playing a second tape behind the voice tape. Thus, if in the original tapes, doors are slamming, buzzers buzzing...
...Goldberg's name surfaced first. She is a freelancer on the fringes of Washington journalism, and her participation in the caper was dismissed as a bad joke. But Freidin, 56, though never in the top stratum of his trade, is clearly in a different league from Goldberg. He marched into Prague with Patton and later served as foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He is also a Democrat. Why did he become involved in so tawdry an episode...