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...costumes he seems to have taken care to crowd bodies in small spaces and to compose lopsided stage pictures. In lieu of pacing riot scenes--the court-room scene and Toad's return to Toad Hall -- Gage throws his entire cast together for ten-second lumps of chaos, the quickest starting and fastest ending mob actions you've ever seen...
Peter Ustinov, an actor who writes, prefers to be known as a writer who acts. "Acting is the quickest way of making a living," he says. "Writing is a longer-term thing. It is also-from the purely day-to-day angle-a kind of insurance policy...
...Purdue's Bob Griese, 21, and James Beirne, 20, are both throwbacks of a sort. Griese is a true triple threat who can run and kick as well as pass. Unfettered by fundamentals, Griese often throws off-balance or off the wrong foot; yet he boasts perhaps the quickest release of any passer in college football and was a consensus All-America last year. Receiver Beirne is not particularly fast, but he has the deceptive moves to break loose from defenders...
...years, the task of running the U.S. foreign aid program was known as one of Washington's quickest routes to early retirement. In its first 13 years, the program consumed no fewer than nine directors, none of whom lasted longer than two years. By such standards, the program's tenth director has been an exemplar of endurability. Last week, when David E. Bell, 47, turned in his resignation as administrator of the Agency for International Development, he had put in a record three and a half years...
...greatest corporate opportunity is in fertilizer-the quickest way to spur the yield from the millions of farms still tilled by horse and hand in underdeveloped countries. In Taiwan. Mobil Oil and Allied Chemical have teamed with a local firm to build a $20 million urea-and-ammonia plant. Esso Chemical Co. is investing $200 million in fertilizer factories in 13 areas as disparate as Aruba and Malaysia. In the Philippines, Esso built a fertilizer plant and sent teams of native salesmen out into the paddies to show suspicious farmers how much more money they could earn by using agricultural...