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...spite of the efforts of the Group Theatre in the 1930's, the hit mentality and star system continued to govern Broadway. Rising costs increased the risk of producing a Broadway show and decreased the number of successful (profitable) ventures. Shows in the fifties had to be bigger money-makers than before to cover their expenses, and to insure large audiences producers would seek out more popular stars (regardless of whether or not they could act). Despite this subservience to popular taste, profits declined as costs rose still more, tickets became more expensive, and New York theatre attendance dropped...
...last twelve years, Uruguay has been governed by a succession of nine-man National Councils, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. When the presidency came around to Washington Beltrán.* 51, a Blanco Party leader and onetime editor of Montevideo's daily El Pais, he went on TV with a drastic proposal: abolish the Swiss-style council and return posthaste to a single, strong President. Said Beltrán: "If the government is required to govern, it must be provided with the means...
...inappropriate. Every Radcliffe student is required to become a member of RGA and to pay annual dues. The purpose of RGA, according to its constitution (Article II, Section A; page 73 in Redbook), "... shall be to further the best interests of the College community. It shall govern in matters concerning student life and ... shall have authority to establish and enforce social and other regulations. It shall ... provide a forum for the discussion of College affairs." RGA is thus intended and stipulated to operate within the College only, and in matters of College interest. It is a non-political organ, except...
Lacking a majority in Congress, Leoni patched up a three-cornered coalition with middle-reading opposition parties. The Christian Democrats, who helped Belancourt govern, have not joined, but they often vote for Leoni legislation. Leoni was in office only nine weeks when he eased through his ambitious four-year "Leoni Plan," an $850 million program to develop the interior, relieve unemployment and stimulate private investment...
...Roman Catholic Church is an authoritarian, hierarchal institution whose Pope and bishops claim to govern by divine right as descendants of Christ's Apostles. This fundamental Catholic concept is now undergoing widespread scrutiny, criticism and questioning, leading to what Father Joseph Gallagher an editor of Baltimore's archdiocesan weekly bluntly calls "a crisis of obedience in the church." What is being questioned is not authority as such, but how it is exercised; not the concept of obedience, but what it means in the modern world of free...