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...Courtenay Slater, the Commerce Department's chief economist, said, however, that figures do not prove that there would be a recession. "I certainly would not leap to the conclusion they are forecasting an actual recession," he said...
...COURTENAY SLATER, 45, is chief economist at the Commerce Department and one of the Administration's key economic tea-leaf readers. To determine where the economy is going, she pores over mountains of statistics that Commerce collects on trade, inflation, retail sales and other matters. As a student, Slater wanted to become a physicist, but was told by a professor that "women just did not go into physics." After graduating as a history major from Oberlin College and marrying (her husband is a program analyst for the National Science Foundation), Slater decided to enter a field that would lead...
...Broadway, Tom Courtenay continued in Otherwise Engaged by flashlight, with an actor shouting "Erring!" when a phone was supposed to ring and humming the overture to Wagner's Parsifal in place of a recording. About a quarter of the 2,000 people who were watching the stage show Salute to New York City stayed on at Radio City Music Hall after the lights went out, snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets...
Memorizing lines is sheer agony, but TV Personality Dick Cavett is determined to see his name in lights on Broadway. The onetime Yale drama major (class of 1958) belatedly makes his debut this week as Tom Courtenay's replacement in the hit show Otherwise Engaged. "I can't see why if I don't screw up I shouldn't be acceptable," Cavett predicts about his role as a snobbish British publisher beset by domestic crises. But he does have one worry: "I have a bad dream in which I go blank during a speech...
Alan Bates put an angrier edge on Simon when he originated the part in London, but there is much to be said for the sweet slyness (and the dead eyes) of Courtenay's interpretation. He gets the same mileage out of Playwright Gray's powerfully witty lines, which are the source of Simon's charm. Their inventiveness and stylishness keep the other characters from flying out of his orbit while keeping audiences riveted in their seats and even caring about the s.o.b...