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...creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after Pearl Harbor and the struggle to survive until General Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return. Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly LIFE and a retired editorial director of Time Inc., deploys a diverse cast of characters (American, Filipino and Japanese) whose fates are joined in a narrative that combines the observations of good journalism with the emotional impact of perceptive fiction...
...Hamlet. Angelo, deputy to the Duke, sentences Claudio to death for fornication. Claudio's sister, Isabella, goes to Angelo to beg for mercy; he agrees to free her brother only at the exchange of her virginity. In this drama of masquerades, complications and sexual reparte, a twelve-member cast stars at Winthrop House through next weekend...
...World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...
...opponents, the strongest being the moderate Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a mixed-race consortium of ethnically based parties with considerable appeal to Namibia's 80,000 whites. Says Alliance Chairman Dirk Mudge, a white former Finance Minister: "It won't be a SWAPO landslide, believe me." Last week's violence cast doubt not only on whether the frail peace plan can hold but also on whether Namibia's political future might yet be settled by other means...
There were grounds for skepticism. While well respected in their fields, Pons and Fleischmann were far from the mainstream of fusion research. In addition, they had released their results in a manner that tended to cast suspicion on their claims, staging a press conference in Utah complete with television cameras. For several days researchers around the world were dependent on TV and newspapers for scraps of information about what could conceivably be the biggest science story of the year -- if not the decade...