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...archrival, is playing in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Jackson is also starred in TV's Elizabeth R, a six-part series that has broken all ratings records for noncommercial television and is up for seven Emmy awards next week. On the New York stage, Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, with Claire Bloom as Mary and Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth, has just finished a Broadway run and is scheduled to go on tour in the fall. Also in New York, a musical called Elizabeth I had a short run, and at Lincoln Center there...
...resist bringing them together in a dramatic confrontation. On this point, the new scriptwriters split. Hollywood does Schiller's and Donizetti's single meeting one better and stages two, both full of ear-splitting cliches and sounding uncannily like a commercial for Tide or Cheer. In Vivat, Bolt finds his own not particularly happy solution by placing Elizabeth and Mary onstage at the same time, but in separate scenes. TV's Elizabeth R, by far the most accurate and the best of the accounts, is wise enough not even to attempt a face-to-face encounter...
Norman S. Sidney, chief of the MIT police, said yesterday that the three students had also tried to cut the lock with bolt cutters from the police department and were unable...
...lengthened the handle on one bolt cutter to six feet, and tried as hard as we could to cut one of the locks. We broke the jaws of the cutter," Intravia said...
...seem like it's a long way away, but it's as close as North Cambridge where Bolt, Beranek and Newman works on antisubmarine warfare devices. Its basic research on acoustics is useful in developing acoustic and seismic sensors used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers...