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...schools. "I would provide students with group experiences in drinking," he told a Conference on Alcohol and Food in Health and Disease at the New York Academy of Sciences last week, so that they might "familiarize themselves with their own reactions to alcohol and learn the signals that portend an unhappy drinking experience for themselves or their peers...
Poor Prospects. Labor's new militancy about working conditions and its steep economic demands do not necessarily portend a big increase in major strikes, which have actually been declining in recent years. Automation and the successful elimination of much union featherbedding have so reduced costs that some industries have already been able to grant substantial wage increases without damaging their profits. Record sales and earnings have also put many companies in a more generous mood than usual...
...When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite and perhaps deserve destruction. Nevertheless, the play is more like the rape of the Sabine men, that stock modern American stage theme in which weak men are ravished and ravaged by strong women...
Skiing should be more enjoyable--and more enjoyed -- this year than ever before. Major improvements in area facilities, highways, and equipment, plus the impetus of last winter's Olympics portend an increase in the sport's already phenomenal growth rate of 25 per cent each year...
Skiing should be more enjoy-able--and more enjoyed--this year than ever before. Major improvements in area facilities, highways, and equipment, plus the impetus of last winter's Olympics portend an increase in the sport's already phenomenal growth rate of 25 per cent each year...