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...stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...
...opposing argument is that such a move would inevitably be misinterpreted abroad, to France's detriment. Most worrisome are the reactions of the U.S., West Germany and staunchly anti-Communist Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, which provides one-third of France's oil imports and is a major customer for French arms. King Khalid, in fact, is reported to have expressed concern over a possible Communist Cabinet role, while lunching at the Elysée two weeks ago. Aides to Helmut Schmidt hint that the Chancellor will drive the same message home to Mitterrand when the two meet in Luxembourg this...
...have long enjoyed aerial supremacy over Lebanon. They are able with impunity to operate reconnaissance flights, often at supersonic speeds, over the length and breadth of the country-240 sorties in just one 48-hr, period last week, for example. Syrian MiGs have occasionally challenged these overflights, to their detriment: 13 MiGs have been lost in dogfights to Israeli jets over the past 18 months. As if to underscore that superiority, Israel last week also intensified its aerial attacks against Palestinian positions all across southern Lebanon. In one particularly lethal raid, Israeli jets flew repeated bombing runs over the Lebanese...
Perhaps the cruelest result of the practice is that it encourages youngsters to pin their hopes on an athletic future to the detriment of normal educational and social growth. Nearly 1 million boys play high school football, but only 21,500 of them win scholarships to major colleges and universities. And only 333 college players were drafted by the pros last year. Insists Fordham: "The coaches request it, and the parents buy it. The kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back...
...private enterprise system." Thus Mountain States sued successfully to block the Colorado Public Utilities Commission from requiring utilities to sell natural gas to the elderly and handicapped poor at discount rates. The fund contended that the state should not require private companies to pursue "public welfare" goals to the detriment of other power users...