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...plot might be called Sex and the Country Girl, or how Mrs. Pinch-wife (Elizabeth Huddle) is schooled in the sexual duplicities of the big city. The climax is a scene of biting mockery in which Mr. Pinchwife, more jealous jailer than husband, is tricked into delivering his wife, masked, straight to Horner's seduction headquarters...
...Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor Don B. Betts recently hired an 83-year-old carpenter-and was delighted...
...likes to shock mildly stuffy people, though it's not the Edward Albee bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of the dinner by singing, "I would have let him see me naked," a lament from his dramatization of The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. "This girl's boyfriend goes to a brothel," Kopit happily explained, "and she sings this song describing what she would have done for him. It's got violins...
...regime but not enough to plunge the land into anarchy. It would not be an easy task. There was, for one thing, considerable doubt that Wilson's sanctions-or the parallel trade ban imposed by the U.S.-were strong enough to make Rhodesia feel more than a mild pinch, especially since prosperous South Africa would help Rhodesia make up any trade losses. But there was good reason for Wilson's stand. The blood ties between Britain and the white settlers of Rhodesia would make sterner measures highly unpopular.* And, as Wilson well knows, any recession in Rhodesia would...
...Pinch Hitter. Much of the credit for the common stand against De Gaulle's pressures belonged to a diplomatic pinch hitter, soft-spoken Italian Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, who presided over the Brussels meeting in place of ailing Amintore Fanfani, Italy's Foreign Minister. After quietly sounding out each delegate, Colombo dramatically produced a proposal while the ministers, fortified with postprandial coffee and cigars, talked late into the night in a secluded forest home outside the Belgian capital. Thanks to their agreement, said EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, "the Community is alive." The sole French reaction in public...