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Reading the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times is usually a frustrating experience for dance lovers away from the city. A lot of troupes appearing in New York never make it to Boston. This weekend, however, the Loeb Drama Center and The Goethe Institute host a young German dance company, Tanz Forum Koln, in its American premier performance--in Cambridge...
...most impressive aspect of this rapid industrialization is its variety. Huge textile mills and wood-products plants have long played a key role in the development of the region, and they still do. But recently a host of newcomers, including many well-known corporate giants and some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift...
Barely a year ago, Jane Pauley was a second-string newsreader for a local TV station in Indianapolis. This week she goes on the air as the favored finalist in network television's most comprehensive talent hunt-well, since NBC went looking for a man to co-host the Today show with Barbara Walters in 1974. This time, the network is hunting for someone to replace Walters, who next month starts her $1 million-a-year job on ABC's Evening News...
Second Fiddle. In fact, NBC already has a successor to Walters, Tom Brokaw, 36, who took over last week as prime host of Today after three years on the White House beat. His new leading lady, whoever she turns out to be, will play second fiddle. "The uneasy alliance between our co-hosts did not help the show," says Today's new executive producer, Paul Friedman, 31. "We're getting back to a single person in charge...
...increasing combativeness of nonaligned conference members is unlikely to alleviate that plight. Nonetheless, the host of their next conference, in 1979, will be Cuba...