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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robbins' young troupe (average age: 24) reached London midway in a four-month State Department-sponsored tour of Europe and Israel; so far, the troupe has attracted capacity crowds everywhere from Salzburg to Athens. Fortnight ago, performing without costumes or sets (lost in a plane crash), Robbins & Co. proved to be the hit of the Edinburgh Festival. Most of the program at both Edinburgh and London's Piccadilly Theatre was originally devised for last year's Spoleto Festival. Included last week were N.Y. Export, Op. Jazz, a deadpan exercise in which knees break, shoulders shrug...
...association blamed the industry's decline on "unparalleled government muddle, management inefficiency, and a seemingly complete disregard for Britain's welfare." One of the union's biggest worries: this major British industry (total employment: 239,800) is laying off workers at the rate of 800 a month...
...biggest deal of his career: arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic ocean liners. If the German government will give a guarantee for 70% of the costs of the ships, a plan that German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard intends to discuss in New York this month with Promoter H. B. Cantor and other principals, Clark figures that he can raise $112 million out of the estimated $160 million cost "in 30 days." With the "floating hotels," Cantor plans to carry transatlantic passengers for as little...
...once a week; 22 twice a month; 15 monthly; 85 several times a year; 21 twice a year...
...figures on actual attendance at services reveal that professed need for synagogue membership does not entail participation. Among the Orthodox who were polled about a third attend services weekly, or twice a month; the Conservatives' figures show that about 85 per cent attend synagogue no more than "several times a year," while among the Reform Jews the figure is over 90 per cent...