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Here again the women proved themselves the more dissatisfied as 81 per cent criticized the UHS for inadequate information in com- parison with 65 percent of the male respondents...
...took 1.8 seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the extra time was needed to convert the signals into a standard TV picture). Thus, before he or his assistant, Al Pennington, 27, saw the camera's response to their com-NASA mands, a total of nearly five full seconds had gone...
...died for lack of funds, not only would Lockheed lose the money that it had already spent on the plane, but subcontractors, airlines and banks would stand to lose up to $1 billion that they had invested in the project. If that happened, said Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton, his com-pany would fail. By Lockheed's estimate, that would cost 60,000 jobs-at Lockheed, at its subcontractors, and at countless supporting businesses. Other countries commonly subsidize their airframe industries, Lockheed supporters argued, and even the U.S. does so indirectly, through lucrative contracts for military planes that are forerunners...
...papers and more lovers in Diana's future, and that she will never scale down her demands. Her story is told in rather slapdash fashion: the children, for instance, seem like shadowy refugees from an earlier draft. The tone shifts too suddenly and too often-from comedy to com- plaint to rather fancy lyricism. Nonetheless, the author, a poet with four volumes of graceful, glib verse to her credit, has written a heroine who is sturdier and funnier than she perhaps intended. Diana is a girl with the courage of her own selfishness. A girl right out there doing...
Hardly anybody had ever heard of the Stuttgart Ballet-a small dance com pany paid for out of public funds to supply divertissements occasionally interspersed in operas-until the Württem-berg State Theater director, Walter Erich Schäfer, had the insight to hire John Cranko and give him his head in 1961. Cranko started by firing half the dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko...