Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Endecott and the Red Cross, at the off-Broadway American Place Theater, is not really a play, it is a variety of some other distinctly interesting things. Based on two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is a kind of animated syllabus on the making of the New England mind, and a soul-scorching look at the Calvinistic implacability of the Puritan temper. It contains the implicit suggestion that in the despoliation and murder of the Indians was born a legacy of violence that has remained a melancholy strand of American life...
Vienna's predicament was summed up last week by a local critic, who said that the opera needs a gifted director "who is tough, courageous, and does not belong to any of the Vienna cliques." In short, the kind of director that the city has been hounding out of office for nearly a century...
...backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...price of scrapped beetles has risen from $100 last year to as much as $500 now-and in many places there are no salvageable wrecks left. Demand has reached well beyond junkyards and used-car lots. Volkswagen of America itself is weighing the pros and cons of manufacturing the short chassis. But many individuals, particularly in California, have discovered another source of supply. Instead of searching out and buying an old VW, they just steal one off the streets-with deplorable impunity. The angry owner of a missing blue beetle would never recognize his car as it whines...
Aimed at local air-taxi outfits, which have sprung up around the world to serve the short runs now spurned by big jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman...