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Business leaders in the community generally predict that the economy will rebound in the near future, allowing businesses to occupy these revitalization sites. "The city is bursting at the seams," says Barbara Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. "You can only hold back development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
Jerome Robbins, the company's other master choreographer, took a shrewd course of action: instead of struggling with a long, note-ridden work, he picked out some small pieces and came up with Four Chamber Works, a winner, even though it has a rough start. Musically, Septet is a droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo...
...that free tickets were given to some of the audience, mostly local residents. At the opening night performance of the New World Ballet, 1,800 people-60% of the audience-walked in free. Other groups played almost for themselves: only 125 showed up to hear Camerata Bariloche, an Argentine chamber orchestra...
Leaders of the peace movement showed that they had been listening too when they convened an antinuclear rally the next day. At least 200,000 people from all parts of West Germany poured into the Beuel section of Bonn, across the Rhine from the windowless conference chamber where Reagan was attending a summit meeting of the NATO countries. A widely distributed leaflet for the rally was strongly anti-American and anti-NATO; one placard read HEIL, RONALD REAGAN. But the mood of the crowd was as much pacifist as anti-Reagan, and unexpectedly relaxed. Said retired Dutch General...
When the crucial vote was over, the House chamber broke into weary applause. Not great cheers, because few members were truly enthusiastic about the fiscal 1983 budget that lad finally been adopted. But Republicans were pleased that they had fulfilled President Reagan's plan to cut deeply into domestic spending while allowing for a defense buildup and a reduction in federal taxes. And many Democrats joined in the ovation, out of relief that the lingering issue had at last been resolved. The final tally...