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AFTER SELTZER and Gustafson, encomiums are harder to parcel out. Linda Greenbaum, as the Lady Ella, has an unusually winning voice, and Stephen Montgomery as the extremely eligible Duke of Dunstable sings in a rich, clear tenor. As Major Murgatroyd, David Brown stumbles out of step, mugs and affects a Cockney accent with comic virtuosity. On the other hand, Jeanette Worthen's characterization of the irksome Lady Jane, who clings to Reginald when the rest of his admirers have deserted him for Archibald, is blunted by an annoying hamminess...
...lowliest of nature's creatures, a rod-shaped beastie less than a ten-thousandth of an inch long. Its normal habitat is the intestine. Its functions there are still basically unknown. Yet this tiny parcel of protoplasm has now become the center of a stormy controversy that has divided the scientific community, stirred fears-often farfetched-about tampering with nature, and raised the prospect of unprecedented federal and local controls on basic scientific research. Last week the bacterium known to scientists as Escherichia coli* (E. coli, for short) even became a preoccupation at the highest levels of government...
...wants to stop the bureaucracy altogether is Ben Shatz, who is angry at the way the Government acquired 80 acres of his land that lay in the path of a Garrison canal. The Bureau of Reclamation offered $9,000 for the parcel, which Shatz felt was worth $20,000. When he refused the offer, the Government condemned the land, and he had to go to court to get a settlement of $17,000. Shatz has erected a large sign on his property proclaiming: "My Farm Ruined by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation." Says he: "It will stay there until...
...have often said that America is the leader of the free world, that South Africa is part and parcel of that free world, and that America in that sense is also South Africa's leader. Unfortunately, if I am disowned by my leader, I have no option but to go it alone. It's not by choice, but I'm not going to shirk it. I don't mind being kicked in the pants -I'm quite used to that-but I'm damned if I'm going to be kicked...
...acre parcel will be the only part of the site of generate tax revenue for the city...