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...seemed appropriate to someone to select a work dating from 1955, the year the AST opened. The choice fell on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, who is, along with Arthur Miller, generally considered one of the two foremost native dramatists of our time...
Cabot heads a committee on which Putnam also serves that is now attempting to select about five outside management companies to handle $400,000 of the portfolio in $50,000 to $100,000 segments...
...bothered except a select group of officials and aristocrats who were on a 200-name master list of wanted men. Soldiers stood guard at banks and at the airport-to prevent rich depositors from closing out accounts over $5,000 or fleeing the country. Radio and television stations were under military control, but no mention of the quiet takeover was broadcast. Aging Emperor Haile Selassie, who was crowned the nation's absolute ruler in 1930, made no effort to oppose the military...
Paul Spyros Sarbanes, 41, calls himself an "urban populist." After a single term in Maryland's House of Delegates, this liberal Democrat toppled 13-term Congressman George Fallen in 1970. A Judiciary Committee member, he was one of only ten Representatives named to a select committee that recently recommended a reshuffling of jurisdictions within the House committee structure The thoughtful son of a Greek-born restaurant owner, Sarbanes is a former Princeton basketball player, Rhodes scholar and Harvard law graduate...
...hear comments on a proposed regulation that factory air must be cleansed of all "detectable" amounts of vinyl chloride, a gas that has been linked to liver cancer (TIME, May 13). Plastics executives testified that technologically such perfect purification is impossible. At the other hearings, held by the House Select Subcommittee on Labor, representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce voiced more general gripes. Speaking for the N.A.M., for instance, Michael Stinton, safety manager of Dow Corning Corp., contended that lowering factory noise levels from 90 decibels to 85, one proposal OSHA has studied...