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...this particular account of original sin, is electrifying. Nothing more is needed to drive the message through the spectator's heart than the voices of the hardened tart and her procurer, accusing yet beseeching, against the panorama of human misery. Tempted to condemn them, the audience finds itself at fault; it is a hard lesson to take, but a lesson it is, nonetheless. It stands as one of the high points of the entire production...
...start-up of the big Diablo Canyon plant in California last month was supposed to give nuclear power a much needed boost. Televised noisy demonstrations by protesters who contended that the plant had been built too close to an earthquake fault had failed to stop it. But then, just as fuel was about to be loaded for test production, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the plant's owner, discovered a startling error: pipes meant for one area of the plant had been installed in another. P G & E halted operations until the foul-up could be rectified, which will happen...
...York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie Jean commented, "but his bark is worse than his serve." Fault...
...finds fault in the current law because it prescribes only standards of care in handling, housing, feeding and watering and does not specifically deal with types of research allowable...
...perhaps even further reduce the American share of world economic development assistance. Said one Mexican delegate: "Washington is arguing that more private financing is needed, but interest rates are already too high for the borrowers to afford the loans anyway. It's the U.S. that is at fault for not enforcing a policy that will bring interest rates down...