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...State Department official. Frazier Meade, country director for Philippine Affairs, says the U.S. would do best "to avoid the competition between Aquino and Marcos." And they are not an inhuman lot down at State; privately, one source conceded when asked about martial law, "We're caught in a real bind...
...Africa is in a real bind," the 40-year-old reporter says. "Africa says, 'Let us solve our own problems,' but whenever there's a real problem, the first thing Africa does is shout for guns or money. Many of these countries are living off the international dole...
Reagan was triply delighted by the league's decision: it took the spotlight off his recent series of gaffes, it put Carter in a bind, and it gave a boost to Anderson. Like Carter's, Reagan's aides are convinced Anderson hurts the President more than their man. When New York State's Liberal Party last week endorsed Anderson and thus put him on the ballot where he could coax more votes from Carter, one Reagan aide was so pleased that he sent Anderson Strategist David Garth a bottle of champagne to celebrate...
FORD. Delays in down-sizing its cars and a cash bind have made Ford in many ways an even sicker company than Chrysler. Ford's big models are selling poorly, and it lags behind both Chrysler and GM in the production of small, front-wheel-drive cars. Says Auto Analyst Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "Caught between GM, with all its money, and Chrysler, with a federal sugar daddy, Ford has to husband its limited resources...
Price knows that audiences have changed since 1904-or 1968 for that matter. The Goodspeed's plays are not exact reproductions, but approximations of the originals. For the first quarter of the century, the books of musicals, the stories that bind them together, were rudimentary. Modern audiences expect more of a plot, and the books have to be extensively rewritten, with dated jokes carefully excised. The editing has to be judicious, however, so that the show's spirit is retained. In Johnny Jones, for example, Adapter Alfred Uhry wisely kept Cohan's quaint jingoism. "You think...