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...work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...
...late-breaking cover story assessing the latest developments, as signified by the General Electric-RCA marriage, the biggest ever outside the oil industry. Says Business Editor Taber, who supervised this issue's story: "We are witnessing the remaking of the American business landscape. The results of merger fever will be felt for years...
...record highs. In recent weeks the Dow Jones industrial average has scaled one peak after another. Last week was the busiest in the history of the New York Stock Exchange, as the Dow jumped 58.03 points, to close at 1535.21. "The windfall profits from merger offers have sent a fever through the market," said Byron Wien, a Morgan Stanley analyst. In a recent study, the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm estimated that corporate takeovers have been responsible for nearly three-quarters of all stock gains since January 1984. Acquisitions have raised the value of target companies' shares an average...
Montana acted ostensibly to keep livestock free of brucellosis, or Bang's disease, which has been detected in some Yellowstone buffalo. The disorder can cause cows to abort, and spreads undulant fever in humans. Critics say Montana has not suffered an outbreak of brucellosis for 25 years, and that the kill is being held to please the hunting fraternity and cover up herd mismanagement by the Park Service. While the Fund for Animals, headed by Author Cleveland Amory, is suing to prevent the hunt, the state has more than 3,000 applications from hunters eager to shoot the once endangered...
...grand dame of public service at Harvard is the Phillips Brooks House Association. And it, too, is feeling the revival's fever. "I think each year that I've been here more people have come through PBH wanting to volunteer," says Valerie A. Barton '86, the association's president. The almost century-old association now has more than 800 people working through 23 committees on such diverse issues as tutoring schoolchildren, giving advice on small claims court, improving the treatment of the mentally ill and helping refugees adjust to life in America...