Word: inhumanities
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...Charlie, Behrman is improvising on the theme of "the inhuman race" in a rueful comedy of good, bad and bed manners. The play's hero, Seymour Rosenthal (Jason Robards Jr.), is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all but turned the running of the foundation over to an extravert pal from Yale days, self-interested Charles Taney (Ralph Meeker), who would rather down a Scotch than lift a book...
Divorced. By Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher, 32: Edwin Jack Fisher, 35; on grounds of abandonment, cruelty and inhuman treatment; after almost five years of legal marriage, no children; in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was, as they say, a Mexican standoff, Eddie being in Puerto Rico while Liz was in Toronto with the leading candidate to stretch her name by six more letters; but Liz did not have to be there in person, and when no one showed up from Eddie's side during the 21-day waiting period, Liz's lawyers won the award "by default...
...Soviets add that during their stay "the young people of both countries did not always find a common language. This is understandable. Soviet youth has no illusions about the inhuman capitalist system...
...National Observer found enough similarities between De Gaulle's France and Mao's China ("both potential nuclear powers . . . neither signatories to the limited atom test ban treaty") to support its contention that these two buddies just had to get together. "A risky flirtation with utterly inhuman revolutionaries," editorialized the Columbia, S.C., State. The Chicago Sun-Times predicted that one bad move would lead to something worse. "To welcome a government, its hands dripping with the blood of its neighbors, into the United Nations is a refutation of that organization's ideals. And to those nations that have...
...many Florida papers the story outranked and outspaced the riots in Panama. The Los Angeles Times gave it 44 running ft. of coverage in a single issue. John Connors, the Miami Herald's two-pack-a-day science writer, handed himself a cruel and inhuman assignment: stop smoking. The Detroit Free Press set Reporter Barbara Stanton behind a hotel tobacco counter to see if local smokers were still buying. They were. The Houston Press offered $200 for the best letter on "Why I Quit Smoking" and $25 for the best letter on "Why I Won't Quit...