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Electronic matchmaking services have long enabled love-starved clients to choose dates by watching videotapes of potential companions. Now the Corporate Interviewing Network, a company based in Fort Lauderdale, is giving employers a chance to use a similar technique to screen job applicants. Firms using the service send CIN a list of job candidates. Then CIN arranges to videotape interviews with them at 19 regional offices from New York City to Los Angeles, using questions drafted by the employers. Within seven days after talking with the last candidate, CIN sends the employer a tape of the applicants...
...America's most celebrated Shakespeare troupe, Stratford Festival Canada, which is making its first U.S. tour in 13 years, with a repertory of Twelfth Night and King Lear. The shows have played to nearly sold-out houses in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla.; are running in Fort Lauderdale for most of January; and will finish in Washington on Feb. 2. Founded in 1953 by Tyrone Guthrie, the Stratford company prides itself on echoing the style of Britain's Old Vic of the 1940s, which in turn derived from an earlier era. Stratford productions sprawl grandly. The stage...
...pictures [IMAGES, Dec. 30], I noticed that you did not include any photographs of the astronauts in space. You often feature forces that divide mankind. It would be useful to show us a picture reminding us that we all live on the same small planet. Gregory N. Papadatos Fort Ord, Calif...
...reading your article on the travails of Portland's police chief [NATION, April 14], I tried to decide whether you were talking about Portland, Me., or Portland, Ore. I found no reference in the story to help define the place in question. Please, where is Portland? Michael Jay Park Fort Wayne...
...last July, Leonard was pitching batting practice. He started over in the minor leagues with the Fort Myers Royals (A) and gingerly pitched his way to the Memphis Chicks (AA). In September, 28 months after his collapse, Leonard returned to Kansas City to pitch the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Milwaukee. He allowed one hit. "This spring," Howser says, "I told him, 'You're going to have to be a good pitcher to make our staff.' He told me, 'I don't want to be an average pitcher anyway. I don't want to just...