Word: nut
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Police found a military ID card identifying the dead man as Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, 47, the chief of the Direction Generate de la Securite Exterieure, the French equivalent of the CIA, for all of southeastern France. But investigators came across precious few other clues to help crack the Nut case. The intelligence officer's .357 Magnum revolver was found 15 ft. from his body, ruling out the possibility of suicide. And even though three shots had been fired from the gun, no bullet was found in Nut's body. An autopsy revealed that he had eaten...
...complicate the investigation further, police noticed that the gas tank in Nut's rented car was empty. Days before the murder, the brakes in Nut's own car had worn through under mysterious circumstances. If he had been set up, the rented car might have also been fixed so that Nut would have been left stranded on the deserted road at the mercy of a killer masquerading as a helpful passerby. It was equally possible that Nut might have left the motor running while he jumped out of his car to make a quick, and fatal, rendezvous...
...while avoiding the usual pitfalls, this production falls instead into the Brechtian chasm. Were it any other play by Bertolt Brecht, this director and this cast could have produced something special. One can't fault them for choosing a hard nut to crack, and indeed, the play might shine with some more polishing. In any case, such a talented director and superb cast deserve a look...
...nut, adj.: authentically Australian, provincial...
DIED. William Black, 80, iconoclastic founder and chairman of Chock Full O' Nuts Corp.; of cancer; in New York City. Black parlayed a $250 investment hi a Broadway nut stand in the 1920s into a $116 million company that rests on a New York City chain of lunch counters, but now does 83% of its business nationally marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced...