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...Charlie Whitman and his mother returned together to Florida, he in a grey metal casket, she in a green-and-white one. With hundreds of curiosity seekers gawking and jostling in a rolling, palm-fringed cemetery in West Palm Beach, mother and son were buried with Catholic rites. Charlie had obviously been deranged, said the Whitmans' priest, and was not responsible for the sin of murder and therefore eligible for burial in hallowed ground...
Here are no palm swelling rubles; small argent barn...
...served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors in Shell Heap, with an angler bending to his catch while the breezy skies of Florida seem to whip palm fronds into an ominous rattle...
Armstrong introduced some flexibility, however, to facilitate the play's special demands. The well panels can side back to reveal the interiors. For the several important scenes in Olivia's garden, not only is there a potted palm at the far edge of the stage, but the wall of her house wings out to become a trellis covered with oranges and greenery, punctuated by three oval holes through which is Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian can stick their heads to spy and comment on Malvolio's famous Letter Scene. All the shifts work smoothly and allow the play to flow...
...unwary. Ranged on the steps of seven pits on Chicago's trading floor, the brokers transact orders for Kansas wheat, Illinois soybeans, or other crops that have not yet been harvested and in some cases not even planted. Sales of such futures are made with hand signals-palm up and in when a broker is buying, or up and out when he is selling. Fingers are held horizontally and manipulated to indicate prices offered or asked. Each contract represents 5,000 bushels of a commodity. The contracts are still traded on margins as low as 10% of actual crop...