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David Storey's In Celebration, presented by Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, is in the tradition of the finest family plays. Its relatives leap to mind: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, The Homecoming, Like them, it is incessantly poised between laughter, tears and the unfathomable mystery of existence. Like them, it is a loving, sorrowing armistice with the past...
...year, making 1974 "the first calendar year of double-digit inflation since 1947." Eckstein frankly states that he can see "nothing but disaster" this year on the inflation front. He expects the consumer price index to rise 11.1% for the year and the wholesale price index to leap an incredible 17%. For length and severity, says Eckstein, the current U.S. inflation has already become the worst since World...
...fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity; his dancing is less mannered. In solo work he seems eerily to be improvising-as if he were taking each leap for the first time. And he is trying out new roles: clown prince, for instance, rather than swan prince...
...Labor Department announced that the Wholesale Price Index jumped .7% in April. Although that was the smallest monthly leap since last October, and little more than half the March rise of 1.3%, there was no cause for celebration. The good news was confined to a 3% drop in wholesale farm-product prices, which should lead to a welcome decline in some retail prices within the next few weeks-but many economists believe that the downward pressure on food is about spent. Industrial products ranging from iron and steel scrap to lumber, cotton, man-made fibers and animal hides rose...
John McCulloh's fourth place in the high jump, with a 6 ft. 8 in. leap, puts the talented freshman in solid high jump company. McCulloh, who earlied jumped 6 ft. 10 in. said he was "only one inch short from being in the national championship." He hopes to get in that inch in the upcoming IC4A's at Pittsburgh...