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...under nagging and contradictory pressure on several other fronts last week. In Chicago, the country's Roman Catholic bishops adopted a pastoral letter that is sharply at odds with many elements of Reagan policy (see RELIGION). And earlier in the week, three U.S. Senators, including Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, sent the President a letter warning of their potential opposition to deployment of the controversial MX missile. A similar message came from nine members of the House, who were led by Albert Gore of Tennessee. The price of their acquiescence, the Congressmen wrote, was a more flexible U.S. approach...
...Brush up your Shakespeare," sang a pair of rogues in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, "and they'll all kowtow." As master artificer of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, Director Trevor Nunn has applied brush, tweezers, rouge and style to this dowager of a "problem play." He has outfitted her in the decorous billows and sashes of Edwardian England, taught her to sing and dance, sent her on a grand tour of Belle Epoque France and war-weary Italy. Now, fresh from triumphs in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, this radiant creature has come to charm...
...Nunn demonstrates, as he did in his productions of Nicholas Nickleby and Cats, that he is a showman-scholar who can infuse the most daunting of projects with whirlwind grandeur. Under John Gunter's airy greenhouse of a set, All's Well teems with musical-comedy bustle: dashing cadets in aviator goggles, marching bands and sultry chanteuses, and a Florence railway station full of Nunn's beloved smoke effects. But there is gravity here as well as buoyancy. A mood of Chekhovian wistfulness is set at the start with the valse triste of a young couple fated...
...first notable analysis, Defense Facts of Life, was suppressed until Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, who had heard of it, insisted that it be declassified. Spinney professes still not to understand the furor that it kicked off; he had intended it only to enable his superiors to make more intelligent decisions. Says he: "I had no idea what was going to happen...
There are no strict rules regarding the evacuation of a building after a bomb threat, and evacuation decisions are made on a "case to case basis," Nunn said...