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...outside his home town of Wausa (pop. 725) had ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell...
...HOMECOMING. Awarded the Tony as the season's best play, Harold Pinter's drama melds the mystique of the surreal with relentless honesty in the examination of interpersonal relationships. Flawlessly performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, it forcefully binds the audience in a puzzled spell while catching it up in heated controversy...
Having thus sidestepped the particular problems of conglomerates, Douglas proceeded to spell out his agreement with the FTC charge that the merger "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in the production and sale of household liquid bleaches." P. & G., he noted, was the nation's leading sales promoter in 1957 -and it still is, spending $245 million on advertising and promotion annually. When it bought Clorox, it was latching onto the leading producer of bleach, which controlled 48.8% of the market...
...classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer in which eight fellow student nurses were stabbed or strangled to death in a South Side Chicago apartment, walked toward Defendant Richard F. Speck, 25, and raised her hand toward his head. "This," she said...
...novel describes how Satan ("the master") comes to Moscow in the 1930s to cast a spell on the inhabitants. The characters, all lacking orthodox Marxian solemnity, range from a talking cat to a chambermaid who flits about her employer's flat in fluttering nudity. One of its most interesting scenes is a re-enactment of Christ's encounter with...