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Vinnell Corp., though not exactly a household brand name, is scarcely a do-nothing James Bond Universal Export with a plaque on a door and all mystery within. The privately owned company, headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, was incorporated in 1945, and has specialized in large-scale building and engineering projects in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries abroad. Vinnell served as the contractor for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, paved highways in several Western states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving...
...three sons who return home to make an occasion of it. Mr. Shaw (Bill Owen) has a weak heart from working in the coal mines of Northern England. Mrs. Shaw (Constance Chapman), doted on and fussed over, defers to her husband but remains an enigmatic center of her troubled household. The three sons are creatures of compromise and uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful rage. Out of the urgencies of inner demons, he proposes...
...list of contenders, seeking or sought, for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination is almost infinitely expandable at this premature stage of the campaign. It includes those household familiars: Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, George Wallace. It extends to those whose potential candidacies may only be a gleam in someone's eyes, be it only their own, such as New York Governor Hugh Carey, California Governor Jerry Brown, Illinois Governor Dan Walker, Pennsylvania Governor Mil ton Shapp, Idaho Senator Frank Church, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Ohio Senator John Glenn, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, Boston Mayor Kevin...
Lethal Success. Such desires, explains Jong, "were a fantasy of my 20s." Now 32, she has outgrown them. "The beautiful men on the street are probably very boring to talk to." Jong grew up in a Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...
...high time the Eastern Seaboard realized that heritage does exist West of the Rockies, but I can't comment on "Frontier America: The Far West" because I haven't gotten over to see it yet. The exhibit is the first of the MFA's bicentennial program, and includes household objects, drawings, paintings and photographs...