Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separate Tables is actually a brace of plays--Table by the Window and Table Number Seven--both laid in a modest English private hotel. Both plays are studies in different types of loneliness; and both, aside from the two leads, employ the same set of characters. There is plenty of humor, but the themes are basically serious...
...Hong Kong, Chinese Communist raincoats sold last week for 40% less than in Canton. The Japanese admitted that Chinese underselling had "destroyed" Japan's newsprint and grey cotton sheetings exports throughout Southeast Asia, now threatened to undermine Japan's markets in soybean oil, cement, structural steel, window glass. In Jakarta, Indonesians were snapping up Chinese yarn at $390 a bale, $25 cheaper than Japan's yarn. In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented...
...frustration, finally offers herself to a stranger. "I don't care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected. The third incident has the Rev. Mr. Hartman (Donald Saddler) jaggedly convulsed before the vision of a woman dimly seen through a window. The fourth is a tautly controlled dance between mother (Ilona Murai) and son expressing in the pushing of a palm and the brush of a shoulder her mixed longing and desire to send him into the world...
...North Carolina was gripped by a talkathon mania, and the leading contestants were all women. Fayetteville's radio station WFLB set the format: the contestants started talking before an audience outside the plate-glass window of a TV appliance store, kept on until exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into...
...husband, a clothing salesman, was not affected, though he slept in the same room, was probably a matter of individual sensitivity. But how did the mites get into the bedroom of a Philadelphia suburban home? The medical detectives tracked them to an unlikely source -the window air conditioner. The machine's intake, on the street side, was obstructed by two nests of the common starling. The mites had attached themselves to the starlings, but when the machine was switched on, they were vacuumed out of the plumage, into the bedroom and onto Jean T.'s sensitive skin...