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Joan Bonato seems to have written Philadelphia for actors to show off their talents, and at times they do. Lois Shelton as Louise, a black woman deserted by her alcoholic husband, knows how to express her bitterness with a good amount of bile. And her lines--especially about taking a black stable-boy statue from the white home where she's going to do the cleaning and lynching it--bring together a good mixture of humor and sorrow. Somehow this play is made for the down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black...
Saturday night, March 1, was quiet in Shelton, an industrial town of 29,000 in the Naugatuck Valley region of southwestern Connecticut. At the Sponge Rubber Products factory, which stretched for two blocks along the Housatonic River, only two guards and a boiler operator were on duty. Suddenly three men, armed and wearing ski masks, appeared inside the building. They abducted the three employees and drove them to a nearby woods, where they taped them to a tree. One gunman hinted to his captives that he and his companions were connected with the radical Weatherman movement...
...have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director of Ohio Decorative Products. He supposedly served Sponge Rubber Products as a water-purification consultant, annoying various managers by poking around the main Shelton plant unescorted and as he pleased. But the plant, so far as anyone knew, had no water problems...
...Shelton, the news of the indictments was small comfort. The unemployment rate in town is a high 14%, and nearly 300 of the people left jobless by the bombing are still out of work. It is likely that Sponge Rubber Products will fold altogether, bad news for the 600 people working at its three other plants still operating in the area. Says Lloyd Witmer, an aide to Shelton's mayor: "You hear comments like 'So they caught the people who did it, so now they'll bring them to trial. But what does that...
...nation. The strength starts up north at Oregon State, whose team, expected to fight for the cellar, was instead tied for first place with U.C.L.A., going into last weekend's showdown with the Bruins. The Beavers are led by 6-ft. 8-in. Sophomore Forward Lonnie Shelton, who is racking up 18 points per game. Oregon, nicknamed "the Kamikaze Kids" for the squad's aggressive physical play, is another contender, led by Guard Ron Lee, who tops the Pac8 in assists. Southern Cal, perennial runner-up to U.C.L.A., is also making a potent bid with its fast-break...