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Shirt-Sleeve Mufti. Today irrigation pipes lace the fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen kindle the spark of real life in this lace-curtain Irish drama about the woes of a middleclass family in The Bronx...
...Madwoman as if the character existed in the script and score. She nearly makes it in the first act, and in the second, she takes flight (with some help from a Herman ballad, the only song in the show that works). Frocked in costumes that look like mountains of lace and sporting a crazy carrot-colored wig, Miss Lansbury still cannot help but be beautiful. Despite the unhappy things she has to do in Dear World, you have to love...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. The woes of a middle-class Irish family in The Bronx may be an unlikely subject for drama, but the performances of Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen kindle the spark of real life in material that often seems like lace-curtain O'Neill...
...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...