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...into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry picker" used to replace street lights. Funny...
Meetings with Mike. The first case involved a paunchy former Army lieutenant colonel named William H. Whalen, who retired five years ago to become a $1.79-an-hour park-litter picker and treeman in Fairfax County, Va. As the FBI told it, Whalen, 51, had worked with Soviet espionage experts between 1959 and 1961 while assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Whalen, charged the FBI, had conspired to turn over to the Russians information covering "atomic weaponry, missiles, military intelligence reports and analyses...
...Picker '67 has twisted this familiar plot and given it something of a new ending. Her stranger, Sophia, has become engaged to the family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note...
...Miss Picker has a talent for writing dialogue; the best scenes in The Garden bring two characters face-to-face. But when three or four are gathered togther, all hell breaks loose. The ensemble scenes seem curiously inaccurate. Everyone talks as if he had forgotten anyone else was present. I think The Garden would play passably--perhaps well--if a virtuoso actress were found for the part of Sophia. Certainly the play deserves a better production than the one it is presently receiving at Agassiz. Nervous acting, and very little directing at all, have emphasized the difficulties of the script...
Land developers also do handsomely. In 1956 a former cotton picker named Michael Mungo began studying population trends in and around Columbia, S.C., saw that all signs pointed to rising growth in suburban areas. He bought up outlying land for $282.50 an acre, put in water lines and some other improvements; the land now sells for $11,000 an acre. Result: Mungo, at 37, is worth...