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...hopes of California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. seemed to crash in 1959 with its ill-starred Electra turboprop airliners, which eventually cost $25 million to modify and were largely responsible for driving the company $43 million into the red in 1960. Many wrote Lockheed off after this debacle, but the company had some ideas of its own. In an industry made cautious by military cutbacks, huge development costs and quick obsolescence, it has moved ahead with such exotic projects as the U2, the 2,000-m.p.h. A11 interceptor, and the still-secret RS-71 world-spanning reconnaissance plane. Lockheed...
...course it is also possible to read the play as literary criticism in literary terms of the tragic tradition, and of Sophocles' Electra and Aeschylus' Eumenides in particular. Euripides packs his recognition scene with allusions to earlier versions of the same myth and to several apposite situations in Homer...
Euripides dresses Electra in rags (we know this was considered revolutionary because Aristophanes lambastes him for it in the Acharnians), burlesques the recognition scene and makes a farce of divine intervention and mercy, but he aims his barbs at authors not gods. He is never irreligious; quite the reverse...
Anne Lilley (Electra) amirked coyly in some of her most serious speeches and several times mouthed the opening word of a line silently or made a tentative gesture before going through with the actual business. And Carl Nagin (Orestes) didn't help the pace much either with his oracular delivery...
...Evidence. "Since in politics almost anything can happen from day to day, it would not necessarily be impossible for Senator Goldwater to beat Lyndon Johnson in November," said Scranton above the Electra's drone...