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...union and Cotrell and Leonard are entangled in a four-month labor dispute. The union has charged the company with unfair labor practices and called two strikes, one of which is still in progress; the company denies the union's charges and says both the strike and the complaints are the work of only a small group of employees. The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a hearing on the case for next February...
...emptiness. No one works the fields; the shepherds are gone, and so are their flocks. Two hundred thousand people have fled the south. Until last week's Israeli raids, according to Lebanese observers, 190 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians had been killed, and 350 had been wounded during the four-month period...
Ruhollah was by all accounts a bright child. He loved to play soccer and has retained an interest in the sport; he occasionally watched soccer matches on TV during his four-month exile in Neauphlele-Château, outside Paris, in 1978-79. He attended Koranic school in Khomein, and was later sent to Arak to study under a well-known Islamic scholar, Abdul Karim Haeri. In 1920, when Haeri moved to Qum and established the famed Madresseh Faizieh, a center of Islamic learning, Ruhollah went with him. Except for his years in exile, Khomeini has lived and taught there...
...plan the book, though. For 15 years, she kept a notebook on every production, doubting her words would ever be published. The first draft of The Bright Lights emerged over a four-month period of continuous work. Seldes bubbles with enthusiasm for her editor, Jonathan Galassi--"his very youth was an asset"--and for the contributions of an editor in general. In contrast to the relationship between an actor and a director, an editor is "like another self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand...
While Evert took a four-month hiatus from the circuit early this year, Navratilova became the scourge of the women's tour. By the end of March, she had won seven straight tournaments. Chris, an old friend, met the slimmer (145 Ibs.) and newly determined Martina in a Wimbledon warmup at the English seaside resort town of Eastbourne in late June. Navratilova won that stirring duel, serving notice that her resurgence was for real...