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...crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment on whether he had lied in denying that he had given secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent in 1938. Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second." Showing almost no emotion, Hiss and his wife slowly walked out of the room, surrounded by a pack of lawyers and spectators...
...takes a great deal of trust. Consider some of the outlandish elements of the play: its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager, Lady Bracknell (Elizabeth Wilson), who is "a monster with out being a myth, its one young man, John Worthing (James Valentine), who invents a dissolute brother, and its other young man, Algernon Moncrieff (John Glover), who blithely proceeds to impersonate him. This is farce walking the tightrope of absurdity. But it is also farce at its most urbane - as insolently monocled in manner as it is killingly high-toned in language...
Survival is no longer the issue. The old Plains is already dead. Carter T shirts ($4.50), Amy Carter birdhouses ($8), Jimmy Carter "Happy Mouth" bottle openers ($4), Plains coloring books ($1) and the "Georgia Peanut Presidential Handbag" ($15) are now the chief stock of almost every shop in town. Outsiders so jam the small stores that Plains residents have taken to driving ten miles to Americus to do the simplest food shopping. Although the state has installed Plains' first traffic light, massive traffic tie-ups occur regularly. Five tour outfits, one of them partially owned by Billy Carter...
ALLIGATORS. Valued by shoe and handbag manufacturers, the American alligator seemed headed for extinction when it was placed on the federal endangered-species list a decade ago. Since then, largely protected from humans, the reptiles are making a comeback with a vengeance. Their numbers, estimated at only 52,000 in 1970, now exceed 600,000. Alligators have invaded populated areas, leading to worries that they may attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf...
...pants parade by. His wife is less happy--there is a quality both frantic and clinical to the way she examines the couples of men who walk by hand in hand. The woman frowns and squints, as though she were looking for something she had misplaced, like a handbag or a half-finished drink. Perhaps she is looking...