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Since its opening in 1976, A Chorus Line has broken box office records on three continents, captured nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama: now it returns to the Shubert Theater for its fifth and final engagement. The curtain has risen for more than 3000 different audiences. In more than 3000 performances over seven years, the show's international company has not lost its spark: in this engagement the dancers and singers perform with the exuberance and energy of an original opening night. All the ingredients that have made A Chorus Line so successful remain strong in this...
...more insidious basic research by the industrial councils. But no spokesman defends public health as vociferously as industry protects its products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence of lethal cancer could be attributable to medical advances which have conquered other previously fatal diseases, epidemiological studies point to another explanation, showing a clear correlation between the degree of urbanization and mortality...
Investors are willing to risk money on this ailing industry because they suspect that it may be about to return to health. Airline stocks have risen by an average of 66% since August, a run-up that ranks among the best of any industry. Says Robert Joedicke, an airline analyst at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb: "Airline profitability is entering a recovery period that should gain momentum during 1983 and continue for several years." A report from the investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley puts it in plainer English: "Every portfolio should have an airline stock...
...bond sale, which officials predict will occur within the next six months, is expected to end nearly a decade of MATEP-related financial headaches for Harvard. Since construction began in 1974, funded by operating capital, the cost of the plant has risen more than 10 times the original estimate of about $20 million, and a variety of refinancing schemes have collapsed because of the nation's economic climate and numerous administrative delays...
Alcee Hastings had made history before. The son of domestic servants, he had risen fast to become, at 43, the first black named to the federal bench in Florida. Last week, three years later, he sat as the defendant when a jury of ten whites and two blacks filed into the Miami federal courtroom, after deliberating 17½ hours, to announce their verdict on charges of bribery-conspiracy and obstruction of justice. He hoped that he was not about to go into the history books again, as the first federal trial judge to be convicted of a crime.* A court...