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...that the company is on vacation, Havergal has found the time to direct at the Loeb, and to do a recent Regent's Lectureship on Drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he lectured on theater management ("I love the Barnum and Bailey part of it all," he says), and conducted a directing workshop. "I was particularly keen to come here and work with students on a production," Havergal says, "because I haven't done any work with them since I left college [Oxford...
...curators at London's Regent's Park zoo, the deaths were troubling. Between March 1974 and September 1976, 55 owls in the zoo's celebrated collection died. For a while, zookeepers thought that the birds, which usually live to ages of 15 years or more, were simply succumbing to old age. But when younger birds began dying too, sometimes after repeated convulsions, the zoo's chief veterinarian, David Jones, decided it was time for some serious sleuthing...
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, people all over the country have been trying to sort out the issues and absorb the analyses in the controversial case of Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
Carter, who was driven around London in a tan bulletproof Lincoln, stayed at the heavily guarded Winfield House, the elegant Regent's Park residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia...
Died. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 83, who was expelled from his country in 1941 for courting the Nazis; in Paris. Following the 1934 assassination of King Alexander by Croatian nationalists, Paul became senior regent for eleven-year-old King Peter, his nephew. When his policy of conciliation with Hitler led to a popular military coup, Paul fled Yugoslavia, and Peter commanded an unsuccessful resistance to German occupation. Under British house arrest in Kenya until 1945, Paul lived in exile in Florence and Paris after...