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...McDonald's claims that its Paris licensee, Raymond Dayan, has spoiled the company's image by serving food in grimy surroundings. Says a McDonald's spokesman: "Dayan's restaurants were so filthy that your clothes would be covered with grease if you stayed in there too long." The firm wants to take away Dayan's right to use McDonald's name for his 14 restaurants...
Reagan also proposes new federal fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens: up to $1,000 for each undocumented worker. Says Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan: "It is our apathy, our lack of concern that has allowed such an evil and unconscionable system to exist." Donovan faces a tough job in breaking through that apathy and cracking down on America's underground labor market...
...Paff, a leading Teamster dissident, is not impressed. Said he: "The Labor Department has consistently bungled. We're worried it's going to be even worse under [Secretary Raymond] Donovan...
...test results. The three other ex-Congressmen were each given $20,000 fines, and multiple prison terms to be served concurrently. New York's John Murphy, 55, received a three-year and two two-year terms. Michael Myers, 38, was given three three-year terms, and fellow Philadelphian Raymond Lederer, 43, racked up three terms of three years and another of two years...
...conducting kept the evening humming. No amount of stage magic by Director Bliss Hebert, however, could save The Rake's Progress, the most depressing waste of a good libretto (by W.H. Auden and Chester Kailman) in 20th century opera. Neither Soprano Elizabeth Hynes' touching Anne Trulove nor Raymond Leppard's sympathetic work with the orchestra could raise the music above Stravinsky's cynically pedestrian level. Strauss's Daphne, written when the composer was 72, is a tired piece, with only one touch of genius: the wizardry of the instrumental passage depicting the mythic heroine...