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...grant from a private Dallas foundation, Hubbard in the past 3½ years has taped hundreds of hours of interviews with 50 imprisoned skyjackers, worked with airline crews to develop techniques for handling piracy, and outlined his ideas in a 1971 book called The Skyjacker: His Flights of Fantasy (Macmillan; $5.95). Hubbard's go-easy approach is anathema to get-tough FBI officials and many pilots. But there is some evidence that it works: Hubbard has personally stage-managed the peaceful surrender of three hijackers...
...family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
...about a triangular love relationship in which a girl (Antoinette Sibley) breaks up an affair between two male homosexuals (Anthony Dowell and Wayne Eagling). The program reveals, however, that the boys are brothers. Fraternal love is admittedly difficult to convey these days, but in this short work MacMillan has compounded the problem by his cramped and largely uninteresting choreography...
...dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction and Martinu's sweet and sour Fantaisies Symphoniques). A distraught Anna, apparently living in a mental ward, relives the past as she imagines or remembers it. As to whether Anna was an impostor, no one knows for sure, including, unfortunately, MacMillan...
...disappointment of these new ballets is somewhat redeemed by such familiar delights as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet. But generally the work of the company betrays a certain unease. It may be that MacMillan and his dancers have not yet struck the right working relationship. If so, MacMillan did not improve matters by staying in London, leaving esprit, not to mention foot work, to others...