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That ominous and prescient prediction made last month by Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer came all too true last week, the most frightening that U.S. aviation has ever known. The episode began with a call to Trans World Airlines by a man who called himself Gomez. He directed officials to a Kennedy Airport locker containing it note saying that there were bombs on four TWA airliners set to go off over an 18-hour period; he would locate them all in exchange for a $2,000,000 ransom...
...Culpa Dept: In Saturday's review of Black Comedy, I incorrectly suggested that its author, Peter Shaffer, could also claim title to Slouth, I was wrong. Slouth was written by Anthony Shaffer, Peter's twin brother I am told. But then you know those Britishers, they all do sound alike...
Black Comedy and The Public Eye--two one-act plays by British playwright Peter Shaffer now claiming digs on the Loeb's mainstage--are, you can't escape it, the products of a weazy old middle-class theater, but the ingeniousness of their author and the ingenuousness of this cast does as much as can be done in the way of stirring up the tired blood. Shaffer's forte, it would seem, is to take up the basic elements of cliche (a triangle of husband, detective and adulterous wife in the case of The Public Eye and a where-were...
...twist of plot. I would suspect that, since most of the play's humor is sadly dated in a late fifties-early sixties sort of way (there are jokes about psychoanalysts, coffee bars and Kismet), the play's real interest lies in the fledgling hints it gives of Shaffer's present London and Broadway smash Sleuth. Suffice to say that director Liz Coe has struggled valiantly to keep things moving (though when the blocking finally resorts to sending the actors up and down ladders exhaustion might have legitimately claimed the better part of valor) and Peter Kazaras as the insatiable...
...Middle East to the TIME/Superjet Conference at Deauville, France. The group, hosted by Time Inc. President James Shepley, heard expert appraisals of aviation prospects and problems, then went to the Paris Air Show. Among the Government officials participating were U.S. Transportation Secretary John Volpe, Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer and Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Secor Browne...