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...Pravda is not merely lamenting the newspapers that are but pining for newspapers that might be. The play is not foremost a preachment, however, but a superb high-energy entertainment, with a cast of 33, lavishly detailed sets, throbbing music and an urgent, propulsive style set by Co-Author Hare, who directed. It recalls the morally assertive best of warmhearted Broadway satires like The Solid Gold Cadillac in every regard save one: Pravda does not and, given its bitter convictions, could not have a happy ending...
Thousands of people traveling on business or to weddings or graduations were idled, and airports around the U.S. were in chaos. "It's a zoo out here," said a policeman at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last Friday morning. The Baltimore Orioles baseball team was among those stranded at O'Hare Thursday night. At La Guardia Airport in New York City, United tried to persuade other airlines to honor its passengers' tickets, but that did not always work. American Airlines refused to honor the United ticket held by Larry Scweber of Portland, Me. He wanted to go to Tulsa...
...Hare-hitting defenseman Jerry Pawloski shared the Percy Award with MacDonald. Pawlsoki's steady play and devastating open-ice body checks earned him the recognition on the heels of a nine-assist season...
...Republic, a white House aide told Carl Bernstein that the President has a stable of wily Svengalis--"His reservoir of right-wing friends and contacts from the old days"--urging him rightward into Nicaragua. "He can be his own worst enemy, particularly when he gets some hare-brained ideas from reading right-wing garbage," the aide told Berstein. "A lot of times that's when the trouble starts...
...computers, and their designers, are rising to the challenge. Hundreds of office and factory workers are already using simple voice-control computer systems to do everything from dialing telephones to controlling assembly lines. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, for example, United Airlines baggage handlers call out the names of airports as they toss suitcases on a computer- driven conveyor belt. A voice-recognition system, responding to their commands, dumps each piece of luggage into a tray marked for the appropriate airport and sends it rolling toward its destination...