Word: rivas
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...groups. Two things made up his mind to try it professionally: the urging of his drama coach, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, and an incident that occurred when he was 27. "I stopped by a theater in New Haven," he recalls, "and I followed Roddy McDowall, Estelle Winwood and Maria Riva to lunch just to hear what they'd talk about. The conversation was absolutely banal, and here I thought they were all geniuses...
Beyond the Gates. There are pitfalls, of course. Most of them are detailed in 4 days, 40 hours (175 pages, $5, Bursk and Poor Publishing), a paperback survey edited by Mrs. Riva Poor, a Cambridge management consultant. A few companies gave up the four-day week because their customers refused to adapt to the new schedule. Some workers complained of fatigue because of the longer days. Other firms rushed into a four-day week without sufficiently preparing their work force, then found that they had to raise wages to make the change in hours acceptable. Among companies that switched successfully...