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...other two candidates in the race are now former Boston City Councilor John W. Sears '52 and former Metropolitan District Commissioner Guy Carbone...
...phantasmagorical spirit of E.T.A. Hoffmann lurks everywhere in the Metropolitan Opera's brilliant new production of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), which opened last week. Vividly directed by Otto Schenk and imaginatively designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Hoffmann is the Met's most successful, satisfying effort in months. It is all the more welcome because the season, still somewhat colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle...
Last month Senator Dole denounced these deals and said that the provision would be removed from the tax law or substantially limited. A well-organized lobby, though, has mounted a campaign to keep the leasing tax break. One organization fighting for it is the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Last year the MTA sold 598 buses and ten commuter rail cars for more than $15 million to Metromedia. The MTA now leases the buses and cars from the communications conglomerate...
...decided until the September primary Lakian has said, however, that he will drop out of the race if he does not win the convention. Robinson and the other three candidates--House Minority Whip Andrew Card of Holbrook, former Boston city councillor John W. Sears '52 and former Metropolitan District commissioner Guy Carbone--have all said they will run in the primary no matter how the balloting results...
Participating in the markedly peaceful discussion were State House of Representatives Minority Leader William G. Robinson. Assistant House Minority Whip Andrew H. Card Jr., former Metropolitan district Commissioner Guy Carbone, former Boston City Councilor John W. Sears '52, and Westwood businessman John R. Lakian...