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...story, Howard's suicide plan includes killing Janet. This provides Burgess with the opportunity to show a bit of his genius for drollery. Janet does in Howard first and with the aid of her poet-lover gets clean away. Howard, after spending weeks tucked in a trunk, literally ends up as a scare crow. As the title suggests, though, Burgess is not satisfied to play at being Hitchcock. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the shape of a mind without soul? ∙R.Z.S...
Beauty in the Trunk...
...last October somebody deliberately set fire to an assembly-line control box shed, causing the line to shut down. Autos regularly roll off the line with slit upholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bent gearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose or missing bolts. In some cars, the trunk key is broken off right in the lock, thereby jamming it. The plant's repair lot has space for 2,000 autos, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens, as it did last week, the assembly line is stopped and workers are sent home payless...
...Civil Aeronautics Board is forecasting pretax profits of up to $350 million for the eleven domestic trunk lines this year, up from last year's $25 million and 1970's $85 million loss. Executives of six U.S. airlines that either lost money or made only minor profits last year (American, Eastern, National, Northeast, Pan Am and TWA) expect to do much better in 1972. As CAB Chairman Secor Browne says, "the airlines have essentially turned the corner...
...make ringing pronouncements. But it is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges. A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk...