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...expense (from $14 a week) at one of five London County Council centers, where husbands are allowed to visit only in the evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...
...these problems pile up in Foucheval, who just doesn't hold together. His behavior is discontinuous, almost irrelevant from one act to the next. His insanity is never explained or resolved; Morrow just decides to cure it and throw a little irrelevant philosophizing into the bargain. He doesn't even respect the audience enough to pretend to continuity. There's just the mountain and the madman, like props...
...swank Manhattan apartment, a trusted butler clamped a chloroformed towel across the face of his master. So died William Marsh Rice, 84, leaving some $10 million-most of it to his lawyer. To his old friends in Texas, where Yankee Merchant Rice had made his pile, the will seemed strange. They thought that Rice, a widower with no children, had planned to leave nearly all his money to the founding of a college in Houston...
...massive-shouldered, thick-chested Negro with thighs like tree trunks, Ferguson puts such savage strength into his pile-driving charges that he has been stopped behind the line only three times in three years of bruising Big Ten ball. "He has impossible power," said Northwestern Coach Ara Parseghian after Ferguson ground out nine first downs in Ohio State's 10-0 victory over the Wildcats. "He runs over people who don't bring him down with one or two shots...
...objective realm, Lois Swirnoff of the Institute for Advanced Study has entered a most enjoyable pile of red and purple strata entitled "Geological Landscape." Otherwise, with few exceptions, Radcliffe artists are apparently relegating their abstractions to gen-ed and philosophy papers...