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...midst of national plenty, the bums have come to sense new municipal flies in their bleary ointment. The same blissful prosperity has also brought the bright-eyed vision of urban redevelopment experts, the crash of demolition hammers and the thunder of falling brick. In many U.S. cities Skid Row is marked for extinction to make space for shining (and more taxworthy) office buildings or glassy, classy apartment houses. Kansas City's Skid Row has fallen to an expressway. City planners in Denver have their eye on Larimer Street, and Los Angeles is midway in a civic cleanup on most...
...beyond the thunder and lightning of the Little Rock crisis, the free world's major nations were caught up last week in a problem that nags more lives than race segregation or conflict between states' rights and federal powers. The problem: inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index had edged upward for the twelfth month in a row, with an August rise of .2 lifting the index to a record high of 121.0 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices...
...SOUND OF THUNDER (608 pp.) -Taylor Caldwell-Doubleday...
...admirers, who have bought some 7,000,000 copies of her novels in the last 20 years, it will be good and sufficient news that another literary manhole cover is rolling their way. The Sound of Thunder, book No. 18 on the Caldwell production line, has the usual assets: an inchoate style, specious profundities, embryonic character portrayal, oppressively inconsequential detail-all embossed on a favorite theme, the troubled rise of a business tycoon. About the only noncounterfeit quality of Thunder is the solid clunk it will make high on the bestseller list...
...lost a verse once or twice, he seemed to take the chorus of Hard Times too fast, and he mumbled a few words, so that his Cambridge audience missed some of the risque-er innuendos of Where Were You Baby. Still, it was one of his finest performances, whose thunder was almost stolen by Sam Gary...