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...teens of Tucson who knew of Charles Schmid's ghastly murders [Nov. 26] prove that dry rot has set in, not only in Arizona but in all of America. There is very little conscience in a nation whose teen-agers withhold information about wanton murders...
...arrested for "disturbing the peace" by reading aloud to imported strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks by refusing to have anything to do with them. Inevitably, the strike has attracted some Berkeley students-coeds in college sweaters and wool stockings, boys in Zapata-style mustaches...
...Bernard Shaw raved on about the play as a remarkable example of "realistic comedy." What rot! Shrew is about as realistic as Peter Pan, and the work is, of course, pure farce. Now heaven knows that farce depends mainly on situation and incident rather than character. But good farce (like The Merry Wives of Windsor, for instance) concerns itself to some extent at least with character; in Shrew we don't even have the slightest idea why Kate is shrewish...
...killing twelve and wounding 50, repressed Nasser-inspired student riots last month with equal severity. Opponents of Sheik Isa often end up in a mystery-shrouded prison on desolate Jidah Island. Over Baghdad radio last week, a political prisoner who had recently escaped from the island claimed that "thousands rot there in chains, and are thrown to the sharks when they grow weak...
...today is the sprawling mustard-yellow casino at sleepy Bad Neuenahr on the Ahr River in West Germany. There, few of the blondes among the intense, studious crowds at the tables last week were under 50 years of age or 150 lbs. The average chip on the schwarz and rot was a two-mark piece, worth about 50?, and the beverages were local wine, fruit juice or the neighborhood mineral water, Apollinaris, because no burgher or Hausfrau seemed excited enough to drown his sorrows or celebrate his winnings with Sekt before turning the family Volkswagen back to Bonn...