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Adapter-Director Burt Shevelove and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim have teamed up to employ Aristophanes as a springboard for the sort of romping farce that they achieved together with a Plautus original in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine...
Rolling Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while ITT executives bargained anxiously to head off a walkout at the semiconductor plant in Cascais. "The workers are looking for heads to roll," said a nervous Dutch director of ITT. "The situation could erupt at any moment...
...public interview Diederichs said, "South Africa is five per cent of the whole African continent. Is it too much to ask that five per cent of the African continent be given to white people who can also employ millions of black people and make their standards of living much higher than in other parts...
...troubles the Kennedy Library Corporation's faith in the Maguire impact study was shaken. They turned to Arthur D. Little, the consultant firm, and asked them to do a private study. But the federal General Services Administration has expressed its confidence in Maguire Inc., and they will continue to employ them to write the authoritative report. It is amusing to note that even while the GSA was trying to decide whether to fire Maguire for professional misconduct under political pressure, this terse paragraph appeared in the Short Circuits column of the April 14 Boston Globe: "Former Rep. Peter Cloherty...
...domestic employees have the right to strike. The court found that Annenberg's mansion was set so far back from the public road that his privacy was ensured. The decision came too late for the original strikers, all of whom have long since left the ambassador's employ...