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...Posing. Hollow-eyed and weary from weeks of bickering, the U.A.W. and Chrysler negotiators pointedly avoided the amenities which usually accompany the end of a labor-management battle. They held separate press conferences to announce the outcome. When photographers pressed Walter Reuther and his aides to pose with Chrysler officials, he angrily dismissed them: "The attitude of the corporation . . . has sunk to a new low. We would not dignify the company by posing with them...
There is probably no more efficient fund-raising device in the U.S. than a clear-eyed, neatly uniformed Boy Scout who is patriotically seeking adult help in doing his daily good turn. Last week, as a result of a campaign by hundreds of Scouts, hollow, eight-foot copper reproductions of the Statue of Liberty- guaranteed to turn green like the original, except along their soldered joints-were sprouting in the nation's parks...
...Peacock proved the more surprising debacle. Anouilh's indictment of Love began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly portraying how Love tricks the innocent, mocks the decadent, dooms the misshapen, tortures the mad, Cry was almost literally a cry; the author seemed too enraged for clear speech...
...year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed, ragged youngsters, while a commentator described a sordid way of life that added up to virtual peonage...
...although Lamkin's tale of an aristocratic family's decline in a back water Louisiana town seems to have been told before, the author's thorough understanding of his subject matter prevents his first novel from becoming merely an echo, hollow as the life of his virginal, bachelor story-teller, Henry Nelson...