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November 22,15
Psychic wins
in ‘Deathtrap’
Will
please
thriller
wright
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
the real “Deathtrap”
stand up? Ira Levin’s
about an aging play-
who is struggling
through a dry spell challenges
any audience to separate inten
tions from real intentions, mur
der from real murder and the
play from the real play.
The twisting and often
humorous plot unwinds around
once-famous playwright Sydney
Bruhl, who is played superbly by
Leslie Nielsen of “Airplane” and
“Police Squad” fame. The cur
tain opens with Sydney reading
a play writ ten by a young man he
once taught. Sydney recognizes
the play as one which is bound
for success and jokingly tells his
wife, Myra, that he would kill to
have the script as his own.
Myra, played by Maggie Jack-
son, senses that Sydney is se
riously considering killing
young Clifford Anderson and
tries to convince her husband to
co-author the play with the
youth instead.
Michael Potter is excellent as
Clifford, who refuses Myra’s
suggestion for co-authorship.
After Clifford decides to keep
the script, Sydney strangles him
while Myra screams in horror.
When Sydney stands and sees
the corpse lying on the rug, he
gives himself one point for neat
ness and drags the body outside
for a quick burial.
As soon as Sydney finishes the
burial, Helga Ten Dorp, the
neighborhood psychic, comes
knocking on the door.
Marie Lillo gives an excep
tional and very enjoyable per
formance as Helga. Lillo’s char
acterization of the colorful and
boisterous Helga is flawless and
her performance at times over
shadows the rest of the cast.
Helga warns Sydney and
Myra of the danger she senses
and urges them to exercise cau
tion and to watch her on the
Merv Griffin Show later that
week.
After Helga’s departure, the
twists in the plot become more
humorous, more complicated
and more unpredictable. Clif
ford isn’t dead, or at least not
yet. He returns from the grave
and beats Sydney to death and
scares Myra into a fatal heart
attack. But Sydney isn’t really
dead — he and Clifford were
conspiring from the beginning
murder Myra.
The plot subtly conveys the
reason for Myra’s murder —
Clifford and Sydney are lovers.
Before the play ends, Clifford
and Sydney kill each other in a
quarrel over the publication of
Clifford’s new play, which hap
pens to be a very accurate
account of Myra’s murder.
Braniff workers want
to retain seniority
United Press International
DALLAS — Members of
the only union yet to come to
terms with bankrupt Braniff
International over a proposed
working agreement with Paci
fic Southwest Airlines said
they would rather see their
former employer liquidated
than be forced to give up their
seniority.
Machinists left the talks a
week ago and have not re
turned.
The group says it is willing
to accept pay and benefit cuts,
but members Saturday re
fused to accept a provision
that would force them to lose
the seniority they gained at
Braniff.
The breakdown of talks be
tween Braniff and the
machinists was the only thing
blocking Braniff sjoint opera
tion agreement with PSA,
based in San Diego, Calif. Bra
niff has asked federal bank
ruptcy judge John Flowers to
void the machinists’ contract
at a Nov. 29 hearing.
If the contract is canceled,
Braniff could hire nonunion
machinists to maintain its fleet
of aircraft. But if the tactic
fails, Braniff executives admit
the joint venture with PSA
could be finished.
“I’m for telling them to
stick it,” said Tom Pickett, a
Braniff mechanic for 28
years. “I’d rather see it all go
down the drain.”
The machinists said they
were willing to accept cuts in
pay and benefits — but would
rather see the liquidation of
Braniff rather than accept a
proposal forcing them to lose
the seniority they gained with
Braniff.
They were sticking to their
demands of full seniority be
cause that would assure veter
an Braniff machinists a job if
PSA reduced its work force.
The Braniff machinists all
have more than 20 years of
experience.
But under the Braniff
proposal, Braniff workers
with even 40 years of experi
ence would be laid off before
any PSA mechanic.
“I’m willing to give ‘em a lot
to make Braniff go,” said G.H.
Gray, a mechanic-inspector
who worked for the airline for
34 years. “I’ll go back under
lower pay. But I won’t go back
without my seniority.”
Gulf chairman
predicts rivalry
TDC tentative budget
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AUSTIN — The Texas De
partment of Corrections has re
ceived a tentative budget of
$774.1 million for 1984 and
1985 from the Texas Legislative
Budget Board, about half of
what prison officials sought.
Prison officials submitted a
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nium, which was significantly
trimmed in the board’s Friday
recommendation. The budget
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The largest increases in the
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agricultural operation, improve
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the end of 1985.
United Press International
PORT ARTHUR — Flat
tened demand for petroleum
products in this decade will
force increased competition
within the oil industry, the chair
man of Gulf Oil Go. predicts.
“We expect total demand for
petroleum products in 1990 to
equal total demand in 1980,”
Gulf Oil Chairman James Lee
said Friday, “This means that
there’s going to be very tough
competition at the gas pumps in
the 1980s.
“During the 70s, we spent a
lot more time becoming expert
on interpreting government
regulations and allocation
schemes than on sharpening our
marketing skills. We’ve got to re
learn some of those skills.”
Lee said even though de
mand is expected to remain fiat,
the nation will remain depen
dent on crude oil and natural
gas for energy.
Few alternatives appear on
the immediate horizon, with the
nuclear industry dead in the Wit
ter and shale oil still unprofit
able because of slumping oil
prices, Lee said.
He predicted a change in the
mix of refined products, with
line than today, but withoveral
demand remaining flat.
Lee foresaw an equ;illv com
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industry as nations rich with oil
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lies.
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tfie deep economic recessim
and many companies are
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or selling plants, reducingik
number of competitors. There
going to be increased comptir
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Texas A&M President Frank
E. Vandiver told regents the
University is moving toward a
computer network that would
make all campus computers
compatible.
Eventually, this system could
be expanded to Prairie View
A&M.
System Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen said: “The ... computer
situation has been one that we’ve
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