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...Brothers are so thrilled to be living under the same roof that they have trouble expressing their bliss in mere words. Everything works out right at Phi Kappa Sigma. Everyone is smiling. How can this be? These guys go to MIT, don't they...
...that Carter has declared it is U.S. policy to protect the Persian Gulf from Soviet meddling. There is a possibly perilous gap between intention and capability about which Brown was questioned during his first stop of the day, at the Army's Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss in El Paso...
...dispute centers on the 93-member orchestra's demand for a four-performance week. But that would ruin the opera financially, says Anthony Bliss, 67, the Met's executive director, and "would return it to the dark ages-season after season burdened with overwhelming deficits." Though the Met has made money in the past four seasons, its surpluses have been minuscule-just $102,000 last year, for example. By the Met's reckoning, the musicians would drop the workweek from 25 hours to 21, while their average salary would rise from $37,200 to $40,000. This...
...there seems to be little disposition on either side to settle, despite last-minute pleas from President Carter. Indeed the musicians' leaders were so angry that they threatened to sue Bliss if he did not withdraw from negotiations. If the opera kills the season, it will lose $7 million and Bliss, charges the union, will be violating the legal duties he owes the public as an officer of a nonprofit organization. As the week ended, there was much noise, but no harmony whatsoever at the grand and glorious...
Seeing Rossellini's Open City did it. Overwhelmed by the director's neorealism, she wrote to offer herself as an actress: the only Italian she knew, she told him, was "ti amo." Their affair was inevitable, though its bliss was wet with her guilty tears. When she gave birth to Rossellini's child, Bergman became part of a warm and rackety Italian family, though nothing made up for the loss of young Pia, the daughter she had abandoned in Hollywood. She bore Rossellini a son and twin daughters. But the films she made with him were wretched...