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...workers who gave the computer its name, who call it simply "the machine," its advent is not as impressive as it is for management. Leyla Reddy, a clerk, says "at first it was fun because it was something different," and Conceicao A. Peixoto, who works in the payroll office, says that the work became "very interesting" when the computer came in last year. By now, however, the bloom has come off the rose; even though the machine has splintered the time needed to track down an error in the payroll from days to smithereens of seconds, it has lost...
...mother for several months, but she's always welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth, Baby Leyla, six friends, an old goat and a mongrel dog named Wally...
Divorced. Amir Abass Hoveida, 52, Premier of Iran since the 1965 assassination of his predecessor Hassan AH Mansur; and Leyla Emami Hoveida, 38, Mansur's sister-in-law; after five years of marriage, no children; in Teheran...
...under way. The sets for Seattle's Otello had somehow got onto the wrong ship from Italy, and were put in place only 30 minutes before curtain time. San Francisco Opera Soprano Regine Crespin was forced out of the first-night Gioconda with a throat infection, and Substitute Leyla Gencer (who in past Coast seasons has filled in for Callas and Tebaldi) had to learn one of opera's cruelest roles in less than two weeks...
Star of the Spoleto performance was brilliant Turkish Soprano Leyla Gencer, who in the role of Renata demonstrated one reason why Flaming Angel (now available in a Westminster recording) is so rarely produced: the heroine, onstage and singing almost constantly, is required to deliver some of her most memorable lines while crawling on the floor or hopping in hysterical convulsions. Said Director Frank Corsaro plaintively about the work: "I want to move it to New York, but nobody wants...