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...portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their beginnings quicken the webbed roots of memory. Recollection exfoliates until at last, over the distance, the leaves touch...
...suffering from hallucinations as she speaks into Charles' left ear, her husband's good ear, and tries to straighten his tie. Suddenly she collapses onto the grandfather's bed. The story ends...
Long Wait. Gubernatorial Candidate Bellmon is less doctrinaire. He wants to modernize the state government, trim the payrolls, and straighten out a badly built road system. Democrat-Atkinson's big argument is for an increase from 2% to 3% in the state sales tax-a plan that has notably failed to capture the voters' imagination. Bellmon obviously senses that victory is within reach. "After 55 years of Democrats," he says, "it's up to us this year to head up an honest, hardworking and harmonious Governor's office. If we don't, it may take...
Post-Mortem in Zurich. As they struggled to straighten out their own finances, it was more difficult to find such concern for Eddy Gilbert's welfare among other of his former friends and associates. Before he resigned as president of E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., and fled to Brazil, Gilbert admitted to writing $1,953,000 in unauthorized company checks in a futile effort to meet margin calls on his stock in Bruce and Chicago's Celotex Corp. Fortnight ago. a federal grand jury charged fraud and ticked off 15 counts that, if proved, could put Gilbert...
...changed over-night by a crash program "to catch up with the Russians." At a time when radical changes hit all of American secondary education and many other colleges, '62 experienced no direct effects of the post-Sputnik era. The Faculty in the last four years continually attempted to straighten out the honors-non-honors program and wondered about the place of specialization in science courses for non-scientists, but these debates were routine compared to previous changes in undergraduates' education at Harvard...