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...still 11,900 ft.) were in a turmoil, American officials were reported in hiding near the capital, pre-peregrination of personnel by plane from La Paz. Meanwhile, lordly Luce was still "unavailable for comment" in his 40th-floor office in the Time-Life Building in Manhattan's monument to money, Rockefeller Center...
Your story of "The House & Its Rulers" convinces me that the U.S. Congress is a luxury we can no longer afford. All we have is a group of seniority self-perpetuating, conniving egos that have built a monument of 285 billion reasons why they have failed...
...remaining two hours of Juno are generally undistinguished, except for a refreshing lack of the sleaziness and greasiness which still stain most musicals. The major trouble is book trouble: Joseph Stein's script, with its long scenes of aimless small talk taken largely intact from the play, is a monument to misguided fidelity. Mr. Stein has already been chewed out by O'Casey's admirers for associating himself with a huge job of lily-gilding. It seems to me, on the contrary, that what Juno needs is fewer drab, limp petals, and more bright fresh gilt...
...slaves for his pyramid, but he did have the next best thing. Political prisoners were brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
...them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...