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...hardly see the seam between the set and music and the rest of the show, so perfectly do they mesh. For Thomas Babe has forged a magnificent Trojan Women out of many disparate elements--Greek theatre, American language, rock and roll music...
...first egg-shaped project was for a zoo snake house, which, though never built, won him top architectural grades. In 1960, he actually built his first egg house for his parents. "Father thought the inside might be too small," he recalls, "so we simply squashed the iron mesh frame down...
Pouring the concrete on the mesh frame was so simple and easy that Häusermann needed the help of only two people to finish the house. The top shell is set on the bottom half on ball sockets, and the whole egg is girded round with a reinforced encircling belt. Leakage was a problem until he discovered a putty-like weatherproof paint which formed the perfect seal...
...have ever wondered why men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses, McLuhan again comes to the rescue. He knows why girls wear patterned or mesh stockings, why Germans make better nuclear physicists than Americans, why an American is repulsed when a foreigner carries on a conversation only three inches from the American's face, why there is such widespread distaste for the war in Vietnam, why some Arabs wear alarm clocks in their turbans to gain status...
...Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin jabbed back. "The markets don't wait for kings, Presidents, Secretaries of the Treasury, chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers-or even the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board," said he. As for Fowler's imputation that the board failed to mesh its policies with those of the White House, Martin disclosed that he had tried from September 1965 on -three months before the board finally acted to tighten money-to persuade the Administration to go along. After that, according to secret minutes also disclosed last week, the Reserve Board on eight...