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...Royal Ballet's prima ballerina Antoinette Sibley, 34, been given the plum of her career-a three-act version of Manon created especially for her by Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan-than she fell sick. A victim of frequent illness during her 18-year career, including tuberculosis and glandular fever, Sibley could not even start rehearsals last year because of an inflamed hip. Medication put her back on pointe, but she promptly irritated a nerve in her leg. Offstage again, she got the flu. When she finally opened in Manon last March in London, her personal triumph seemed as much...
...major reason for the price decline was that speculative fever began to cool as optimistic crop reports began rolling in. Rumors that the Arabs were about to lift their oil embargo against the U.S. also eased fears of uncontrollable inflation. The present prices, however, are still far higher than a year ago, and few experts are predicting any further substantial drop until the dimensions of this year's harvest are clearer, both in the U.S. and abroad. Rising costs of farm labor, fertilizer and machinery will also work against a further price drop...
...should be added that the amusement provided is roughly doubled if the reader is running about four degrees of fever...
Noel Coward's Hay Fever is probably also funny. Opens tonight at 8 in the Kirkland House JCR; this weekend and next...
...other hand, some strong forces are working to keep the inflationary fever burning. Round the world, a growing number of jittery investors have lost confidence in the value of paper money and are rushing to get rid of their cheapening dollars, pounds, francs and yen by buying things that they feel have solid and tangible value: land, art, antiques, farm commodities, metals. The most dramatic consequence has been an incredible rise in the price of gold from $89.25 an ounce as recently as a year ago to a February high of $178. That increase and rising prices of paintings...