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...bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds. "Joy to the World" Wraps a story of Christmas loneliness around the theme of the original holiday carol; Simon sings of his missing lover: "Away in a manger in some hotel she lays her head. The carolers are gone...
...Nixon Administration's eagerness to help U.S. maritime industries (TIME, Oct. 23) has led to an unforeseen irony: it is contributing to a massive jam-up at U.S. ports of wheat destined for Russia. Only about 10% of the 400 million bushels of wheat scheduled to be sent to the Soviet Union by next June have left the U.S. Some 27 million bushels of grain are crammed into storage elevators in Houston alone, waiting for ships to carry them...
...million private cars, including even French-made Simcas as well as Czechoslovakia's own Skoda, jam the streets and roads of this small nation of 14 million people. Restaurants are packed with Czechoslovak and foreign tourists, swigging Pilsen beer and devouring pork-and fruit-filled dumplings. Perhaps as a result, the Czechoslovaks are now on a physical-fitness kick. One Prague sporting-goods store is doing a thriving business in exercise machines...
...says." The gems of which the editor reminds us--for Vidal is more an editor here than a playwright--are priceless. He brings back Nixon calling Eisenhower "complex and devious...in the best sense of those words," reporting that Ike made him feel "like the little boy caught with jam on his face," and denying that he ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion of Cambodia was not an "invasion," his interference in the trials of Calley and Manson, lies about the economy...
Shoppers pick up soup meat for $ 1 per Ib. and examine jars of jam that cost $1.15. They drink their coffee watered-down-because it costs $2 per Ib.-and pass up steaks that run $3 to $4 per Ib. for an indifferent cut. Even the rich, dark German bread in Limburg goes for an average of 60? a loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure...