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Cinderella is not an obvious banner to follow into battle. In one form or another, the ballet dates back at least to 1813, but it has never been a truly popular theme. For A.B.T. the magic has worked: Cinderella has been a virtual sellout across the country, and, opening the company's two month New York City season last week, it proved to be a sumptuous, buoyant, surprisingly sophisticated show...
...month-old baby; Chambers' wife is expecting her own in July. Not incidentally, the band also has a smashing new album called Learning to Crawl (No. 13 on the charts) that has no current rival for tough rock and straight talk. There is the present sellout U.S. concert tour from Honolulu to Radio City Music Hall, ending May 6 in Buffalo. And there are, apparently, quite a few lessons that have been learned...
...actual world of espionage, however, the sellout price can apparently be that low. According to allegations made by an FBI agent after a 15-month investigation, Richard Craig Smith, 40, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence specialist, sold information last year to a Soviet KGB agent for precisely that sum. His betrayal gave away the identity of a U.S. double agent whom Smith had supervised for nearly two years. Smith was arrested last week at Washington's Dulles Airport after voluntarily flying from his home in Bellevue, Wash., to face charges of espionage...
...Walt's. Disney controls about 2.7% of the firm's stock and is rumored to be gradually acquiring more. Others mentioned as possible buyers are Coca-Cola, RCA and Press Lord Rupert Murdoch. As a takeover subject, Disney will be no Bambi. Current management bitterly opposes a sellout. Last week Disney officers boosted their credit line from $400 million to $1.3 billion in order to fill the firm's war chest...
...Honestly, I am baffled by the virulence of their attack, since it has no relation to my position on South Africa and divestment. I would hope that those people who read Henry Parketal's letter would look at my article before they class me as a racist or a sellout. Damon A. Silvers '86 H.R SASC