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Arnold Schulman's A Hole in the Head is a rather good addition to the corpus of laughter-and-tears drama. It is not a thesis play; nor is it a deep one. The author chose the just-plain-folks, people-in-the-house-next-door, it-could-happen-to-you genre, set within the framework of a specific middle-class cultural milieu--the sort that has tempted many American writers, with varying success, ever since Abie's Irish Rose...
...Lesson of Little Rock. Why were they doing it? "I reckon Little Rock learned us a lesson," snarled one Teddy boy. Ranted a black-bearded ex-serviceman: "I'm a nigger hater all right. I happen to love this country of mine . . . Before the war we were supreme beings-30,000 of us kept one-third of the earth's surface in order. We've got to keep the blacks down or they'll take over like Hitler did."* And a Times reporter noted that the hoodlums came from all over London, even from areas where...
...earnings. The competition in the industry is growing so rough that competitors still question whether Litton is strong enough to compete over the long run. Tex Thornton himself expects that many a promising, new electronics maker will be shaken out of the industry. Says he: "The same thing will happen in the relatively new electronics-based industry as in autos and aircraft. All industries have gone through a maturing phase, and a few companies emerge to stabilize the industry. In five years or so, a few dominant companies will emerge from electronics. Litton is going to be one of them...
...possible dangers of the methox-salen suntan pills, Meloxine and Oxsoralen (TIME, Aug. 4), the A.M.A. declared: "No one knows what will happen to the skin when courses of methoxsalen and sun exposures are repeated once, twice, or oftener each year for many years. Nor is it yet certain what effects, good or bad, this drug will have on the development and course of skin malignancies or on the usual senile skin changes." Determined not to have its editorial head turned by the bronzed body beautiful, the A.M.A. concluded that "even the esthetic value of its effects is still dubious...
Everyone agrees that the recession has just about run its course. But before anyone draws an easy breath, he wants to see what will happen to the automobile industry this fall...