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Meanwhile, the Moonies claim that for all the suspicion around town, some members of the citizenry would like to do even more business with them. Says Denny Townsend, 33, co-manager of the church's lobster plant: "I have people in my office every week who want to sell me a piece of Gloucester...
...criminal life. What's on his mind is the way fantasy interferes with and distorts perceptions of reality. Having picked up a chauffeur (Richard Romanus) who is obsessed with writing "the Great American Song," the criminals soon add two ladies to their entourage. One, sweetly played by Patrice Townsend, is a yoga adept, a diet freak and, it develops, something of a nymphomaniac who brings a musical Teddy bear to bed with her as she seduces all the males present. Her friend, well played by Irene Forrest, is the opposite: a woman so noisily trying to find herself that...
...spending. Though spending is projected to rise 3.3% in real terms during fiscal 1981, none of the increases reflects the military buildup that Carter has committed the U.S. to as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Complained Economist Alan Greenspan of the New York consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan: "To pretend that this budget is up to date when everyone knows that it is not is a bit of public relations that one could do without...
...roots of this crisis are old and deep. In the 1960s, under Chairman Lynn Townsend, Chrysler glanced jealously at the worldwide power of both GM and Ford and tried to emulate them by expanding rapidly at home and abroad. The forced growth was ill-timed, haphazard and too fast. Chrysler entered the 1970s lacking the financial resources to weather three recessions, two oil crises and an enormous wave of environment, safety and fuel-economy regulations...
...while, it was hard to figure out where the cast of Tommy left their show. As we go to press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...