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...CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov...
...first and gravest risk is to make little more than a sofa, a bookcase and a child's rocking horse serve as a house and have no hint of the cherry orchard. Like his disciple Andrei Serban, Rumanian Director Radu Penciulescu has placed his characters in a lunar landscape that no one could either cherish or grieve to lose...
Farther away from the mountain, Northwesterners who were never in any danger heard what many at first thought were sonic booms and then saw a spectacular-and frightening-drama in the sky. Said Harvey Olander, a retired geologist who now cultivates a 40-acre apple orchard outside Yakima: "I was working on an irrigation ditch. The sky got dark, and I thought we had a hailstorm coming. Then it got deathly still, and all you could see through the darkness was the purple-pink glow of sheet lightning." Said Chuck Taylor, a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Pasco...
William J. Ruh Orchard Park...
Last year Kerr let it be known that he planned to retire from the council and devote his time to consulting, lecturing and writing a book on industrial relations. He will also pursue his hobby, growing apples in his Alta, Calif., orchard. The council decided that Kerr was an indispensable man: after five years and 35 comprehensive reports, it has announced it will close its doors at the end of this month...