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LIVING Tha Boston Globe Monday, March 11, 1974 11 I GEORGE FRAZIER Ban on no-deposit containers pushed here A man's worst friend tle bill if a coalition of state legislators and environmentalists has its way. State House hearings on a "bottle bill" will start at 11 this morning in Gardner Auditorium with McCall as the main witness. Displaying a gold flip-top so rare in Oregon at a news conference yesterday, McCall predicted stiff opposition to the bill here. McCall, a Massachusetts native "I was conceived in Oregon and born in Massachusetts" will be introduced by Gov. Francis W.

Sargent, who will also speak in support of the bill. The opposition is expected to come from unions, grocers, the canning industry and beer and soft drink distributors. For the last several years, similar legislation was allowed to die in committee, but this year's bill will be heard by the Natural Resources Committee, which is By Walter V. Robinson Globe Correspondent Interested in litter-free roadsides, lakes and streams for fish and not immortal aluminum cans; fingers and toes unscarred by flip-top cuts, and even cheaper beer prices? Oregon's Gov. Tom McCall and a host of environmentalists were interested when they pushed through state legislation in 1972 that banned no-deposit bottles and cans in the northwest state.

Two years later the so-called "bottle bill" appears to have met these environmental objectives as well as resulting in a net gain of jobs, a savings in energy, and decrease in solid wastes. Vermont followed suit with its own bill a year ago and now Massachusetts, which adopted Oregon's odd-even gasoline rationing plan, may also adopt a bot expected to vote favorably. According to a Boston University Law school student, Emily Starr, who drafted the bill, the legislation would require: A six-cent deposit on beer and soft drink containers holding less than a quart and a 10 cent deposit on larger containers starting next January. Deposits, of half that amount on standardized containers that may be reused by any bottler. A ban on flip-top containers beginning January, 1976.

Among the benefits, said one of the bill's cotponsors. Rep. Peter Harrington- (D-Newton), will be lower beverage prices. "It costs 15 to 20 percent more to buy beer and soft drinks in non-returnable, throwaway containers," he said, predicting the legislation's opponents will try to tell the public they will be paying more for beverages. Aside from the environmental benefits, McCord said Oregon found its experiment resulted in a net gain of 260 jobs in transportation and reuse of containers.

By eliminating the need to continually manufacture new containers, a nationwide bottle bill would save enough electricity annually to provide power for 9.1 million homes, Miss Starr said. Joining McCall before the legislative committee today will be Vermont officials, who will testify about their bill which won a critical test last week when the state's House of Representatives passed a set of amendments strengthening the measure. The law does not require the use of refillable bottles but sets up a required five cent deposit system similar to the one being considered for Massachusetts. AUSOX ARXOLD Ball revives Gatsby era A 1920 ball will benefit 1974 charities, on April 3. It-will also mark the opening at the Circle Theater in Brook-line of "The Great Gatsby," the much-anticipated motion picture based on the book by F.

Scott Fitzgerald. The Copley-Plaza ballroom will take on the aspect of the Gatsby era as Boston enjoys the first multi-benefit to be staged here. The evening will begin with cocktails at 8, followed by dinner and dancing at 9 to the continuous strains of lively fox trots of the 1920s. A fashion show of Alfred Fiandaca's collection is planned with promises of dramatic flashbacks. Marie Cosindas of Boston, who worked on the filming of "The Great Gatsby," was struck by the beauty and authenticity of the production.

So, in order to revive the F. Scott Fitzgerald era, a Great Gatsby Ball Is planned. Guests, who will pay $50 a person, may specify the Greater Boston charity they wish to be the recipient of proceeds from their tickets. If we're going to stand by "Guinness," accepting that barroom staple as the final authority on records, then there should be no doubt about a crocodile's being a man's worst friend. Oh, nasty, nasty.

The only trouble is that lately I've been unable to take "Guinness" for the gospel I once did. Turn, for example, to an old edition, one that's two, maybe three, years old, and, under "Accidents and Disasters (Worst in the World)," look at the entry for "Crocodiles," to wit: 900 Japanese soldiers, Ramree Burma, 19-20 1945." Certainly most of us would allow as how, on the basis of that testimony, a crocodile's not to be taken too light-: ly. The only question is: How reliable is that testimony? I wondered about this the moment I read it Inasmuch though as I am a "Guinness" believer, I'm also quite nosy, nothing would do but for me to get off a letter to the Japanese War Office in Tokyo asking if it could confirm the item. The reply that arrived some ten days later informed me that it could not. And that was the end of except that, coincidentally or otherwise, the entry was dropped from the subsequent edition of the "Guinness Book of Records (LargestSmall-estFastestHeaviestLongestHighestSlowestHottest OldestRichestDeepestTallestLoudestMostestIn, On and Beyond the A thing like that can be traumatic, shattering the aplomb of anyone who ever won a wager at 3 o'clock of a besotted morning by virtue of his being able to turn to "Guinness" and point to presumable proof of his contention that the Mellons are the richest family in the world.

In other words, if the book's compilers, the McWhirter twins, Morris and Ross, are capable of error, who can you trust? Fair question. Or is it, for not long ago we were provided with a handsome tract that would seem to indicate that, Japanese War Office or not, the McWhirters were on to something in their, item about crocodiles' feasting upon some 900 Japanese soldiers in the course of two days. I refer to a handsome, engrossing, exasperating altogether incredible $22.50 book entitled "'Eyelids of Morning," which is a collaboration of the photographer Peter Beard, who did the memorable "The End of the Game," and Alistair Graham, a zoologist with an insatiable curiosity about crocs. It must seem odd, my devoting such space to a study of crocodiles, but I'm not so sure that it should. After all, "Jaws," which, considering book club sales and such, may well be the number one fiction bestseller of the moment, is a novel about a killer shark.

What's significant is that it is the shark, and not the dragged-in-by-the-heels swirl of purple passion, that has made Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws," quite a rich young man. Basically, "Eyelids of Morning" has the same terrifying appeal. It's overwhelming. Also, as I said, exasperating. Certainly anyone who pays $22.50 has a right to expect a little less sloppiness on the part of the creators and or the editor.

For one thing, a number of photographs are meaningless because they're uncaptioned, particularly those on pages 202-3. (What happened to the man?) and 216-7 (What's the relevance of all this?) For another, devastatingly sensual as she looks, the young lady (or are the two pictures of different women?) doesn't seem to serve much purpose or not unless we're given her phone number. This side of "Eyelids of Morning" is infuriating. But then But then there are besides the text, such photos as the one on page 201, which shows astonishingly, sickeningly, terrifyingly what was left of William K. Olsen, a Cornell graduate and Peace Corpsman who taught science in an Ethiopian village, after he ignored a white hunter's warning not to swim in the stream, that runs through the village of Gambella.

It is this sort of thing that raises "Eyelids of Morning" to the status of an experience for anyone who reads or looks at it. Naturally, the conservationists loathe the book. And with reason. Yet Graham and Beard have their own ideology. "It is unlikely, then," says Graham, "that our tale of Lake Rudolf will find a place on the Conservation Shelf beside the lion cubs, the fur-and-feather Schweitzers, and the orphans.

Even if we desired this, it would be no easy task, for there is nothing romantic about crocs, nothing cuddly. In any case, the blind preservation of wildlife is too irrational, too much a part of neurotic compulsions arising out of inverted aggression and crippling sentiment, to be a realistic justification for 'saving' crocodiles." Since it's difficult to explain "Eyelids of Morning" to anyone who hasn't seen it, I guess there's nothing for you to do but buy the book. i tn Mitts I. fSWIlligyi II-' I Councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil of Boston gets a big hand while modeling in fashion show at Harp and Bard in Weymouth. Show, was sponsored by Weymouth Democrats for the Heart Fund.

(Stanley A. Bauman photo) The silver and black billboard Invitations ask that guests wear Gatsby attire or formal dress. Among the notables in- vited to the ball are Truman Capote, Mia' Farrow, Lois Chiles and Jack Clayton. The committee includes Mr. and Mrs.

LIFESTYLE MARIAN CHRISTY Charles E. Inches, Mrs. E. Ross Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Redford, Jules and Virginia Eskin, Richard Merkin, Mr. and Mrs. Murray J. Swindell, Theodore Voss and Mr. and Mrs.

Peter C. Wensburg. A team with talent for gowns fit. I care only if it flatters me and it is in keeping with the established concept of played-down chic." ly popped into Reva's? a bustling Beverly Hills boutique, and bought $200 se-quinned pants, a chiffon $350 shawl and an $85 sequinned bra. At least the fashion beat goes on.

Gus Lucy, the two talented Boston designers who work as a team at the Elma Lewis School, have the knack of getting fabrics that sell for 50 cents a yard and turning the material into fabulous halter gowns. The trick, says Gus, is to scour fabric shops on Kneeland street for expensive materials that have been drastically marked down. "We even look for fine fabrics with manufacturing flaws and then cut around the imperfections," says Gus who advises avid home dressmakers to do the same. The team is working on a special gown for Rene Woodyard of Boston, who's the Massachusetts entry for Playboy's "Bunny of the Year" contest. "Rene's gown is white, body-conscious and with plenty of back and front decol-letage.

We know that cleavage can be very important." Odd or even, rationing or not, and the Arabs notwithstanding, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the MBTA Green Line have a solution to the gas shortage. Flower Power and the Big will combine energies to get people to the flower show in Commonwealth Armory, and save gas. Officers and trustees of the Horticultural Society, in cooperation with the MBTA, invite you to the inauguration of the Big Flower Show car and a preview of the annual Flower Show. The festivities will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday at Government Center subway station with a champagne reception alongside the colorfully decorated Flower Power cars, and there'll be a special "energized" launching ceremony.

Then, powered by flowers and champagne (who needs gas), it's the Green Line to a special preview of the Flower Show, where you can see the final touches being put on this popular harbinger of spring. Attorney Selma Gottlieb, Apparel Industries of New England executive director, says that Boston's dress and sportswear market is the second largest in the country, topped only by New York. Mrs. Gottlieb reports that 80 firms in metropolitan Boston, concentrated mostly on Kneeland street, do an annual volume of approximately $300 million. Which city is the third largest in volume? "It's a toss-up between Los Angeles and Miami," says Mrs.

Gottlieb. Boston's houses include such nationally-known names as Prestige, Personal, Collegetown and Summit, four of the country's most famous sportswear labels. Dress firms with a strong fashion include Puritan Fashions, Robert Leonard and Berkshire Apparel. "It was a rather dull winter," says Mrs. Gottlieb of a sluggish volume, "but stores coast-to-coast report a booming spring-summer business." The corporate wife definitely has to make her fashion image coincide with the image projected by her husband's job.

Mrs. Charles Mosher of Waban, wife of the president of the Newton-Wellesley Bank, says: "Conservative is the fashion by-word for me. Anything that is shiny or has daring decolletage is out of the question. I always remember that my husband is a bank president and everyone in town knows it." Mrs. Mosher, mother of six children who range in age from 16 months to 16 years, has modeled for Anne Starr fashion shows benefiting the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Her private wardrobe, which leans heavily to long skirts or long dresses with jackets, is from Lord Taylor or Saks Fifth Avenue. Designer names don't interest her as much as a look: "I don't care who designed an out Cher may be suing estranged husband Sonny for forcing her into a fraudulent contract, but legal battles haven't dampened her fashion enthusiasm. She recent The Kennedys the American Dream played out Consumer group protest TV ads aimed at children United Press International WASHINGTON Several major consumer groups have told the government it should crack down on TV commercials aimed at children, especially those promoting high-sugar foods or using famous personalities to plug products. Among other things they want are an end to offers of prizes or memberships for buying products; a big reduction in the amount of commercials actually aired during kids' programs, and a ban on food commercials which tell children they will feel, look or perform better if they eat the product involved. "We have just produced the first generation where TV was the third parent in the home," said Robert B.

Choate, head of the Council on Children, Media and Merchandising, one of the groups involved. Since last fall, Choate's organization, along with the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Action for Children's Television, Consumers Now and the UCLA Communications Research Program, has been studying tho influence of commercials on children. They, along with advertising and broadfcasting representatives, have been working on recommendations to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) -on how to tackle the issue. "Ultimately the FTC will have to bite the bullet," Choate said. He added that Congress should urge the FTC to take prime responsibility for the issue to end a jurisdictional overlap with the Federal Communications Commission.

A with her extraordinarily able but cult husband. One most moving episode, after Kennedy suffered his stroke: "So here was Joe, who cannot speak, and Mr. (Herbert) Hoover, who cannot hear, trying to communicate. The two men, friends, both with great achievements to remember; each aware of his own and the other's crippling infirmities now, trying to make the best of it. And so poignant, inexpressibly sad, when each of them from time to time through the meal wept silently." i There, perfectly expressed, is what-Charles DeGaulle called "the shipwreck of old age." Alas, Mrs.

Kennedy is usually more conventional in her comments, and almost everything in the book has been said one way or another before. Still, it's bound to provide a lot of mothers with a comments on herself from friends and relations. The result is that she comes through as a rather flat, nice Nelly sort of woman and I don't believe in this public character. She has to have had more salt, even just as an authority on child rearing. A typical remark: "Walking to and from school is healthful exercise; it is fun in good weather and teaches perseverance when the weather is bad." Expletive: And she likes to talk in quotation marks: "Holier than thou." "God in His infinite wisdom." "Work behind the scenes." Or perhaps the marks are meant to indicate she knows she's spouting a mouthful of cliches.

Mrs. Kennedy does bend to a put-down of Gloria Swanson, but considering past gossip, it is ladylike. Well, pussylike. By Margaret Manning, Globe Staff TMES TO REMEMBER, bv Rose iy. Doubleday, 536 $12 JO.

"Times To Remember" will be a bonanza to the Kleenex trade. I can't imagine a man finding it anything but stupefying but the ladies are going to love every minute of it. All those bright and beautiful children, those yachts and motor cars, those Paris clothes, tycoons and kings. Ah the agony and the ecstasy. It's awfully easy to scorn this book.

It has such an artless air, and the way it is written made me feel as if I were being drowned upside down in a strawberry milk shake. Yet what is here, in fact? It's the story, familiar but fascinating, of one of the great American families, The American Dream played out. And like every BOOK OF THE DAY Even though Mrs. Kennedy says "I prefer to remember the good times," and certainly maintains a monastic silence about most of the bad, the ghastly wounds suffered by her family are so much a part of the public consciousness that a sympathetic reader can supply his own cup of sorrow. "Times To Remember" begins in the boggy Irish past and ends on the plush terraces of Palm Beach.

It's a straightforward, if highly selected recollection and does not reveal the author as a particularly perceptive observer of her time, nor as a woman who will ever extend confidences to strangers. But analysis is not even one of Mrs. Kennedy's aims and she confesses only at church, certainly not for the multitudes. good cry. Other than that she has nothing whatev- one's dreams there is mystery, illogic and One note: She hopes that Ted will not terror in it.

Her method is to call for lengthy er to say about hy private relationship run for Resident in '76..