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...Royal Shakespeare Company was paid for mounting Carrie as part of its season, and thus secured a profit of roughly $500,000. As a result of the unusual transatlantic production, there was a hefty bill for the transport and lodging of the creators and the Anglo-American cast. On Broadway, some 20% of each week's box-office income was set aside for royalties to the creative team, including Novelist King, who otherwise had no role in the show. Another debated expenditure was $500,000 plus for a print, poster and TV ad campaign in New York City before...
...Blinkpan colliery, police arrested five miners in connection with the strangulation of a black worker who defied the strike call. At the Harmony mine, owners fired 74 miners who were said to have damaged the underground telephone system and harassed other workers. At an Anglo-American Corp. plant east of Johannesburg, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to evict 300 protesters. Later in the week, police fired birdshot at strikers at an Optimum coal mine, injuring at least 27 miners...
...fact, the inquiry had struck a discordant note in Anglo-American relations. The criminal investigation, begun in 1983, was supposedly looking into the possibility that British Airways and other North Atlantic carriers had conspired to cut prices to drive Britain's Laker Airways out of business. Before his airline went bankrupt in 1982, Freddie Laker had offered round-trip fares between London and New York for as little...
...Abolishing the insanity defense would mean abandoning the idea on which the Anglo-American system of criminal justice rests--that of man as a responsible agent with free will...By overlooking concerns that a man's will (can be) limited by mental illness, so that he would be unable to choose between good and evil as the criminal law now requires, Attorney General William French Smith...calls for a fundamental change in American jurisprudence...
...ascot on occasion. If he is not on the track, he might be found on a golf course or perhaps riding to hounds with the local gentry. His manners are impeccable, complemented by a bearing that is slightly distant. His accent is what practiced observers of the Anglo-American scene have always called, with a touch of condescension, mid-Atlantic: neither here nor there...