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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLOUGHBY R. CHAPMAN Hendersonville...
There may be a good reason why the directors (Robert Chapman and Eleanor Lindsay) of these productions decided to stage them as "dramatic readings," but if there is they are keeping it carefully hidden. The effect achieved by a group of fully costumed actors pacing around Jonathan Miller's simple and beautifully effective sets with loose-leaf notebooks in their hands is absurd. The actors who have taken the trouble to learn their lines are encumbered by the unwieldy scripts, and the others get tongue-tied and lose their place anyway...
Died. Dr. Sydney Chapman, 82, British physicist and chief coordinator of the International Geophysical Year, I.G.Y. 1957-58; of a heart attack; in Boulder, Colo. Widely acclaimed for his studies of the sun, most notably his theory explaining how solar eruptions cause magnetic storms and auroral displays on earth. Chapman displayed an almost equal genius as manager and coordinator of I.G.Y., which engaged many thousands of scientists in a worldwide cooperative study of planet Earth...
...took 31 years and $60,000 in foundation grants. Last summer the educators and architects formed GEE! (the Group for Environmental Education) to work out, says GEE! Vice President William Chapman, a complete teaching program and to distribute the book. All 20,000 copies have since been sold (at cost) to schools in Philadelphia-plus Houston, San Mateo, Columbus, Ohio, and six cities in New Jersey. Despite its grade school language, the book is used by sophomores studying architecture at the University of North Dakota...
...Chapman said later that the Worker-Student Coalition has not yet decided what to do next in order to promote the painters' apprentices...