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...Sadow quit to seek a master's degree in library service at Columbia, where at first she found studies so difficult that she "went home and cried every day." She stuck it out, today has a $6,250 job on the reference desk of the main New York Public Library, where she fields queries from Bryant Park bums and world-renowned scholars. Her life, she says, has never held such "gaiety, zest and ebullience-it's like a good second marriage...
...naughty play . . ." "Bitter tirade against women, bitter tirade against men . . ." "Great theater, great truth . . ." "Best play on Broadway." So critics first hailed Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, a play that made the reputation of every actress who played in it, from Ilka Chase to Marjorie Main, who had only a walk-on part, and, in the movie version, Rosalind Russell ("It changed my life completely"). Now 30 years and $50 million in box-office receipts later, The Women is one of the few Broadway hits to become a staple in repertory around the world...
...computer has become a main stay of big business in the U.S., but most small and medium-sized companies still find it too expensive for normal use. Last week two of the biggest com puter makers, General Electric and Control Data Corp., introduced new systems that will offer the small business man the same computer advantages as the biggest corporation. Their move to what is called "time sharing" is part of a growing trend to market the com puter's abilities much as a utility sells light...
Proof & Protests. The French contend that they were forced into the Cuban deal almost by an act of God. Le Nickel's main mines are in far-off New Caledonia, but a drought there cut the necessary supply of hydroelectric power and forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year...
...policy makers, however, fear a perilous shortage of these reserves may be developing, since the growth of liquidity -- the supply of currency reserves -- in the post-war period has not kept pace with expanding world trade. The main source of such growth -- dollars flowing from U.S. deficits -- will soon be eliminated...