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...write to you not as a middle-aged housewife, suspicious of her own husband's nocturnal wanderings or anticipatory of "The Seven-Year Itch," but as a nineteen-year-old college student, single and realistic. I have always considered myself nowise naive of the ways of the world, yet cannot help feeling distressed at this off-hand nourishment given to seeds of infidelity which might otherwise remain dormant. It is all too easy to slip into a pattern of behaviour which, though inherently wrong, has been condoned by "THE modern thinkers." Whether or not the statistics are true...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...
Lodha had been exonerated of the old charges while he lay in the stupor, but he took the news calmly. He became bright and cheerful once more. He could remember nothing of his seven-year sleep, was unaware that his father had died in the same house a few years earlier...
Inland's expansion, like the others, is intended to meet not only present but future needs. Among Inland's projects: a seven-year exploitation, started in 1953, to expand iron-ore mining at Financier Cyrus Eaton's Steep Rock development in Ontario (TIME, March 9, 1953), from which Inland hopes to get 3,000,000 tons a year by 1969; a 19-story, stainless-steel office building, one of the few new skyscrapers in Chicago since the Depression; a land-filling project near Inland's Indiana Harbor plant on Lake Michigan's south shore...
...tackled, their opponents dropped. In all, Ronnie completed six passes, three for touchdowns. Whenever he wanted to keep the Aggies honest, he was able to send 210-lb. Bob Davenport, one of the best fullbacks in the country, bulling through the line. For the first time in his seven-year career at U.C.L.A., Sanders has a team that can either "go over 'em or through 'em." Final score: U.C.L.A. 21, Texas...