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...course, there are actually two plays on the Quincy House dining room stage these nights, but each one is there in fragments--half of the first (It's Called the Sugar Plum) and a third of the second (The Indian Wants the Bronx). You might want to check my mathematics, but I think that comes out to five-sixths...
What Arnold has done, and it is a grievous error, is underestimate his playwright by playing only for the surface values. While he does well by Sugar Plum and Indian on the superficial level, I don't think Horovitz would be too pleased with the overall result...
...Indian Wants the Bronx & It's Called the Sugar Plum--Two one-acters by Israel Horovitz, a new American playwright to be reckoned with. To be reviewed tomorrow. At QUINCY HOUSE...
Less Time to Build. Boeing could see the difficulties coming. Even before President Johnson selected the company for the SST plum on New Year's Day of 1967, it had scrapped one movable wing design and substituted another. When new problems mounted, the company earlier this year ordered its engineers back to the drawing boards in an effort to salvage the original concept. Gradually, confided a Boeing executive, it became apparent that keeping the swing-wing would "reduce the payload to the point where the plane wouldn't be profitable...
Enough Schenley stockholders accepted a tender offer to give Riklis' Glen Alden Corp. 88% control of the big distiller (1967 sales: $518 million). Fat with $323 million in working capital, Schenley was a tempting merger plum. As befits Riklis' guiding philosophy-described as the art of buying companies with their own money-Glen Alden is paying for Schenley mostly with promissory paper. For each H Schenley shares, worth about $85 in the stock market, Schenley stockholders get $13 in cash; they also get a $100 debenture that pays 6% annual interest until its 1988 maturity. Riklis can thus...