Word: eye
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AMERICA HURRAH. Playwright Jean Claude van Itallie casts a searing eye and scathing glance at the contemporary American landscape for an inventively rewarding evening of modern theater...
...James S. McDonnell, 67, of St. Louis' McDonnell Co., builds some of the world's best airplanes, and has become even better known by making NASA's Mercury and Gemini space capsules. He is also a shrewd and determined bargainer, and he has long had his eye on the Douglas Aircraft Co. He tried a takeover in 1963, only to be rebuffed by Donald Douglas Sr., now 74, an old friend who helped McDonnell get started 28 years ago with orders for DC-3 parts. Last year McDonnell began buying Douglas stock again, and last week...
Died. Robert J. H. Kiphuth, 76, Yale's peerless swimming coach from 1918 to 1959, who was only a fair-to-middling paddler himself but had such an eye for form, such a fetish for physical fitness and such a commitment to his sport (he would sit at the bottom of the pool in a diving suit to spot flaws invisible from above) that he won 528 dual meets (v. only twelve losses) and four national championships for Yale plus four Olympic victories for the U.S.; following an intestinal hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
Author Crittenden, 29, is a Phi Beta Kappa from Kansas University and has written short stories for The New Yorker and the Atlantic. His literary ancestors range from Nathanael West to Terry Southern to Nichols and May, but he has his own deadpan wit and a wildly antic eye...
...members of the legislature should make that abundantly clear to the governor by criticizing his education budget now. Perhaps Reagan's refusal to say anything more about tuition since the uproar will confirm for California voters what some realized in November: their new governor got elected by keeping one eye on the opinion polls and the other on filmed playbacks of his press conferences--and he is likely to continue operating that...