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Many Americans regard Williams as an erotomaniac, for whom the mildest epithets are "sick" and "decadent." Yet taboo has often been the touchstone of drama. In the profoundest play of Greek tragedy, a man kills his father and marries his mother. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama drip with gore and violence and flaunt unnatural affections. Other critics think that Williams' choice of themes shows America to be -as angry young British Playwright John Osborne puts it -"as sex-obsessed as a medieval monastery." Yet Tennessee Williams fills foreign playhouses from Athens to Tokyo, and his current play, The Night...
...British govern the atoll as a crown colony, based on Captain James Cook's discovery of it in 1777. But in one of history's mildest international disputes, the U.S. has never relinquished, nor seriously pressed, its own claim, based on the working of guano deposits by an American firm there in the 1850s. Occupied jointly by the U.S. and Britain in World War II, the atoll supported a U.S. airbase. Britain had another Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, 200 miles south of Java. In 1958 the island was transferred to Australia, which still uses...
...SOFT RECOVERY. The mildest of the four U.S. postwar recessions brought an unexpectedly modest recovery. After hitting bottom in February, the economy turned up faster than predicted, only to stall in the summer. An upsurge in the late fall sent personal income to a record. U.S. consumers finally got over their yearlong frugality as retailers did a record Christmas business, and Detroit beamed over fourth-quarter auto sales that may even top the 1955 record of 1,700,000 cars. The year's net: not much better than...
...presented to the House last week, the Administration's bill was the mildest of measures. Left out altogether was the controversial aid for teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...
...last week set the date when they expect the recovering economy to regain its former peak: the end of August. If their calculations are right, the recovery would be one of the swiftest in recent U.S. history, following a recession that already ranks (in percentage of decline) as the mildest. Measured by the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, recoveries to pre-recession highs since 1919 have taken between five months and 17 months (see chart). If the present recession reached its low point in February, as most economists feel it did, the recovery time now predicted in Washington...