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...Hatfield and McCoy feud between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
...long Tridents, each armed with 24 missiles, are to begin replacing the 34 aging Polaris and Poseidon subs that now carry the nation's sea-based nuclear warheads. Started in 1971, the Trident program has been racked by stunning cost overruns, delays and an angry feud involving the Navy and the sub's builder, the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio, should have logged two years with the Navy's Pacific Fleet. Instead, the state-of-the-art leviathan sits, 40% over the original budget and still...
...only jarring note in Marcos' week of triumph, which was also attended by high officials from China and the Soviet Union, was his continuing feud with the Roman Catholic Church, whose leaders he had angered during the election campaign. Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, issued a statement assailing "frontal attacks" on the church and accusing the state of "making a mockery of the constitutional provision regarding freedom of religion." But Sin, in many ways a traditionalist, does not seek a confrontation with Marcos. "We are really helping him," Sin insists, "but he sometimes seems not to realize this...
While authorities feud, a "suspect" takes the offensive...
Finally last week the feud was settled. Kennecott and Curtiss-Wright, the upstart industrial and aerospace conglomerate that tried to take over the copper company, signed a ten-year agreement preventing either one of them from trying to gain control of the other. Says Erica Steinberger, a lawyer advising Curtiss-Wright: "This is the grand finale, the climax, the end-I hope...