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Writing a flawless murder mystery for the stage is probably rarer than committing the perfect crime. Anthony Shaffer has done it in Sleuth. Shaffer, twin brother of Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), has written a thriller that is urbanely clever, unashamedly literate, clawingly tense and playfully savage. If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best...
Core of Passion. Under its suavely British surface, Sleuth contains some bitterly anti-British sentiments. The celebrated games-playing vocabulary of the Englishwith terms like fair play and a sporting chanceis cant in Shaffer's view. It masks some bloody-minded bigotry and is no sounder a guide to the British national character than the ritualized tea ceremony is to that of the Japanese. Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews...
Compared with the records of other new planes, those problems are surprisingly few and are rapidly being solved. John Shaffer, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, estimates that within three weeks the airlines will be "out of the woods" with their 747 engine troubles. Meanwhile, most of the passengers and all the pilots agree that the 747 is an outstanding plane. Above all, it has become a moneymaker...
...confident that when the case is tried, we will be completely vindicated," says Chevron President K.H. Shaffer. The very fact that the case has been brought has already vindicated U.S. Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel. Although often accused by environmentalists of being soft on industry, Hickel was outraged last March 10 when he learned about a massive oil leak at a Chevron offshore platform. It was not only the 4,000 barrels a day gushing into the Gulf that bothered him. The spill also threatened his philosophy that industry could live in harmony with the environment...
...successful show of muscle against FAA Administrator John Shaffer would not only impress PATCO's 6,500 dues-paying members ($156 a year) but other air controllers as well. Shaffer refused to be intimidated and, as the FAA sought to pressure individual controllers to return to work, the Government obtained an injunction against PATCO's tactics. "The only way out of this," replied Bailey, "is for all of the controllers to walk out." Privately, he said: "This guy Shaffer has got to go." After their men called in ill, PATCO officials blasted the FAA for continuing operations despite...