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...played the crippled hero on real crutches.) Individual honors go to Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar as the soulful Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring the slice-of-life vigor that is the opera's chief asset...
...your family who wasn't subsequently given a federal job?" asked Vermont's Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Laughter rippled through the crowded Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese grinned. But Leahy said he was serious. Meese hesitated, then came up with a name: James Schmidt, a senior vice president of California's Great American First Savings Bank, which had loaned Meese $423,000 in mortgages and loans secured by houses in California and Virginia. Leahy tartly reminded Meese that four other officials of this bank had received federal appointments...
...conventional one, the Keck telescope will weigh only 158 tons, a third the weight of the Hale instrument. Yet it will be able to perform miracles like taking infrared photographs that are 50 to 100 times sharper than any ever before made on earth. Says Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, famed for his discovery that quasars are the most distant and energetic objects ever observed: "In all aspects, a big telescope can do things better and faster than a small telescope...
...stars, which could be the beginnings of planetary systems much like the sun's. And because light from space, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, takes time to reach the earth, the deeper into space astronomers can probe, the farther back into the past they can see. Says Schmidt: "By looking farther out in the universe, you are paging back in the history books, as it were, to Time Zero." Once they reach that ineffable edge, the scientists may better understand where the universe came from, and where it is going. Or they may end up more baffled than...
...This Administration is committed to trying to enforce secrecy to the extent no previous Administration has," declares Benno Schmidt, dean of Columbia Law School. The Administration has repeatedly tried to crack down on leakers, restrict press access and draft tighter secrecy laws...