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...state of suspended animation last week. A strike brought most of the country's vast railroad network to a stop, idling three General Motors plants, stranding goods and produce on their way to market and even causing the cancellation of a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside the Northeast, Amtrak passengers scrambled for rental cars and airline tickets as service that normally runs along freight lines was disrupted. The strike, however, was temporarily ended 48 hours after it began when Congress approved a bill calling for an arbitrator to settle the disagreement...
...Elis had beaten the Harvard women earlierin the season, 5-4, with Yale's Sam powerdefeating Harvard's Brooke Bailey in the decidingmatch. this time around, Bailey bounced Power,3-1, to give Harvard the win and the nationaltitle...
Director Alan Bailey and designers Andrew Yelusich (sets and costumes) and Charles MacLeod (lights) achieve just the right balance between the seedy and the dreamlike in this California pierside. Most of the 25 actors are only adequate, however, and not one has a first-rate singing voice. Jeff McCarthy has a sledgehammer unsubtlety as the unscrupulous impresario Rocky, Thomas Nahrwold is bland in the underwritten lead role of a failed film director, and Kathy Morath plays his despairing partner with an unrelenting snarl...
...remind women of the options, antiabortion groups are undertaking a war of images. Last month the Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, a Pennsylvania-based group that contributes to conservative causes, began an ad campaign on cable stations to promote the idea that adoption is the solution to unwanted pregnancies. Michael Bailey, an Indiana advertising-promotions executive, declared himself a congressional candidate in his district's Republican primary, largely in order to run a series of antiabortion ads on television. The 30-second spots graphically depict what he says are aborted fetuses; under federal regulations, local television stations have no power...
...only that Australians had wasted time and money but also that events in their region were leaving them behind. Says historian Henry Reynolds: "When I first went to Singapore 25 years ago, it was a Third World country. Now its per capita income is nearing ours." In 1989 Will Bailey, chief executive of the ANZ bank, warned that Australians would soon become "white servants to Asian tourists...