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Dawn has hardly broken over the unhappy Hartman household when the phone rings. It is the police, who have arrested Mary's Grandpa Larkin as "the Fernwood Flasher." A shocked Mary says, "I can't talk now; I'm on the phone." Meanwhile, Tom is at work being regaled by Charlie with the song that his Loretta wrote about mass murder -from the murderer's point of view. "That's not a subject for singing," says Tom. "Course it is," replies Charlie. "Country and western is all about real things like murder, amputations, faucets dripping...
...sense of its own wellbeing. People speak about a declining "quality of life." Those who are discontented with the present are apt to have selective memories of a better past and forget, what went with it- the petty tyrannies that were possible in office, factory or domestic household, where one could lose his job at an employer's whim and could count on few if any benefits if given the sack. But those who in their own lives have since gained by shorter hours, better quarters, safer conditions and coffee breaks have also lost something when they in turn...
...commission noted, the deal was negotiated out of desperation by Southern California Gas Co. (SoCal Gas), which is urgently searching for new sources to supplement its dwindling supplies. Beginning probably in October and continuing through 1982, SoCal Gas will levy a 50? monthly surcharge on the average household; the bite could rise to $2.50. Industrial users, of course, will pay much more-depending on the amount of gas they consume. The utility will periodically turn over the proceeds, which ultimately will amount to $313 million, to Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco), the nation's ninth largest petroleum company. Arco will...
...Pier Luigi Nervi, England's James Stirling, and I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson, among some others, in the U.S. Another entry, however, would have to be Alvar Aalto of Finland, who, at 77, may well still be the most original designer building anywhere. Aalto? He is scarcely a household name in the U.S., because he has done little work in America.* But "the maestro," as he is often called in his native land, remains a seer with a special transnational influence-one that is characteristically not so much doctrinaire as moral...
...nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual Boredom but Loves Her Husband Show; and of course, Ephron as the co-star of her own show, which is left untitled...