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While the stock market has been drifting sidewise, another exchange has been moving at a furious pace. At Chicago's Board of Trade, biggest and busiest commodity market in the world, pit brokers have perspired through two weeks of record business. On one day, they traded an alltime-high 270 million bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybeans-an amount almost three times greater than last year's average. Twice the market's opening had to be delayed an hour in order to catch up on paper work, something that had never happened before...
...playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway's top musical hit of the season, and 40-year-old Angela Lansbury, the woman all moviegoers remember as a worn, plump old harridan with a snake pit for a mouth, is the liveliest dame to kick up her heels since Carol Channing opened in Hello, Dolly! three years...
...pacesetter in scholarly gamesmanship is the San Diego public school system, where Project SIMILE of La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute has enticed 2,000 junior and senior high school students to pit wits against one another in four types of games. In one, called "Napoli," they play the roles of legislators who are equipped with opinion polls showing how their constituents feel about such issues as medicare, tax reduction and subsidies for the poor. As bills on these issues move through the legislature, each player has to make choices between his principles and what he thinks...
...granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand pit...
...play area is a progression of delights. From the sand pit, wood-block stepping stones lead hippety-hop to a tree house, added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...