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...shocking are the commission's facts that, to the average reader, the only satisfactory solution might seem to require: 1) the razing of all large cities, which spawn one-sixth of the nation's murders, one-third of all its robberies; 2) the strict segregation of all youngsters from 15 to 16 years of age, easily the most lawless group in the country; 3) the destruction of all automobiles, for they are stolen at the rate of half a million a year, and are a vital tool in just about every caper from bank robbery to smuggling...
...third off-Broadway drama, Missouri-born Playwright Wilson has not avoided the cliché that small towns spawn only people who are quirky and vicious. Fortunately, the honesty of language, the evocative direction of Michael Kahn, and the uniform skill of the cast, make Wilson's vision plausible. In his play, the milieu is really the message. Something in the U.S. heartland's culture itself seems to stifle his characters' heartbeats whenever they try to make an openhanded gesture of the flesh, the mind or the spirit. Wilson's Rimers are indeed what their collective name...
...least credible presumption of Cabaret is that the dance floor of the Kit Kat Klub portrays a civilization goose-stepping its way to disaster. If the Kit Kat Klubs fostered Hitler, whatever will the Bunnies spawn...
...trade. In Asia's developing countries, per-capita income averages only $100 a year, agriculture ties up 71% of the labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing purposes. That seems to be the Asian way to woo allies. Even Burma, which generally shuns foreigners, has signed up for the first Asian International Trade Fair, to be held in Bangkok this November...
...refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...