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...time for some economic consciousness raising, and have written the nation's first Foreign Investment Control Act. It is expected to clear the Canadian Senate and become law this week. After the act sailed smoothly through the House of Commons without a dissenting vote in late November, Alastair Gillespie, Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, grinned: "Now we're going to be more than a mere appendage of foreign corporate giants south of the border...
...Medak apparently gives his actors free rein, with excellent results. Alastair Sim does a hilarious turn as a dotty bishop of the Church of England, officiating at Jack's nuptials with wide-eyed horror. Arthur Lowe plays Tucker like a recalcitrant titmouse. William Mervyn as Sir Charles, Coral Browne as Lady Claire, and James Villiers as their epicene offspring make the Gurneys as engagingly insufferable as a gallery of aristocrats from Punch...
Seven protestors, including Helfand and Perkins, immediately took an elevator up to the 47th floor, where the office of Alastair Maitland, the British Consul, is located. The rest of the demonstrators, however, were forced to remain downstairs as security guards, realizing what was happening, shut down all the elevators...
Black Holes. Some scientists think that the answer lies in vast clouds of hydrogen and helium gas discovered in intergalactic space. But others, including Cosmologists Alastair G.W. Cameron and James Truran of New York's Yeshiva University, doubt that the total mass of intergalactic gas is sufficient to provide the remaining gravitational pull. Instead, Cameron and Truran suggested at a meeting of the American Physical Society, the missing mass may be hid den away in a completely invisible form: inside so-called "black holes" in space...
...from the most important matches, tennis ranks slightly above barrel jumping and kite flying as a spectator sport. The fault is not with the game but with its hidebound governing bodies. Continually bogged down in petty disputes, they have been more concerned with self-preservation than promotion. Last week Alastair Martin, president of the usually staid United States Lawn Tennis Association, called for sweeping changes. The U.S.L.T.A., he said, "is losing opportunities, causing confusions and creating misunderstandings-not so much by its actions as by its inactions...