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...Moscow to Beirut to Sarajevo, the week was simply memorable. Three weeks ago TIME announced that it was adding up to 100 "bonus" pages in order to handle 1984's very special journalistic demands. This issue contains 62 editorial pages, which ranks it among the magazine's largest issues ever. In it is the detailed, dramatic and colorful coverage made possible by the use of such bonus pages: extraordinary coverage in an extraordinary week...
...Wollan's largest difficulty seems to be with the small number of musicals that have appeared on the Mainstage recently. First, the Mainstage is a large, cavernous, expanse of a theater: this presents difficult acoustical problems. Obviously, it is essential to hear performers in a musical distinctly and clearly. Second, musicals that would fill the physical expanse of the Mainstage are often too big. We do have a limited budget, augment of time, technical expertise, and labor, there is often a worry that these constraints will not to do the musical production justice. Thirdly, musicals are "component" works: acting, singing...
...balance sheet. The firm last year made more than half its revenues from petroleum, a result of its 1982 purchase of Marathon Oil, and only 31% from steel. Last week, though, U.S. Steel took a giant leap back to basics. Directors approved the purchase of National Steel, the seventh-largest maker, for $575 million in cash and stock. U.S. Steel will also absorb some $460 million in long-term National debt, making the total buy-out worth $1 billion...
...image of Israeli bankers could be damaged further by a probe launched late last year by the Histadrut, Israel's major labor federation. The organization, which runs Bank Hapoalim, the nation's second largest bank, is investigating rumors about Yaacov Levinson, a prominent Labor Party member and the bank's former managing director. Levinson, according to stories that he angrily denies, shifted bank funds abroad without authorization. Last week the Israeli Attorney General joined the Bank of Israel and a parliamentary committee in looking into the charges. The so-called Levinson Affair has already deepened the loss...
These domestic sources of "pork barrel" are small, though, compared to the huge dollar value of defense contracts. Since much of the current federal budget deals with the so-called "transfer payments," the Pentagon purchases by far the largest amount of goods and services of any government agency. Just to indicate the importance of last week's engine controversy, United Technologies received 47 percent of its profit last year from engine and spare part sales, the majority of which were to the military. Sen. Dodd estimated the cost to the taxpayer of this supplier change at $2 to $3 billion...