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...owes its survival up to now to recent steps taken by BL Chairman Sir Michael Edwardes, 51. The South African-born boss has attempted to turn this ward of the state into a well-run and profitable company by closing plants and slashing the work force by at least 25,000 workers. But the attempts of Edwardes to reform BL may have run into an impasse...
Addressing a crowd of about 150 people at the Kennedy School of Government, Sir Rov Shaw, secretary-general of the Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB), said, "The principal source of art subsidy should be the state...
...would make more sense to cut some grants altogether and increase others significantly than to take a little bit from everybody; artists are still screaming, playwrights are boycotting conferences, hysterical letters from theatre companies and orchestras take their place on editorial pages beside tireless letters of explanation from Sir Roy Shaw and equally polarized columns by arts critics and culture-watchers. But the London theatre has rarely been healtheir. This year's Edinburgh Festival--a staggering assortment of fringe theatre companies, musicians and artists--was, even at its most materially impoverished, an embarrassment of riches. An embarrassment, that...
...some things marvelously over here." Sir Roy quickly points out. "You've really got a polish on popular culture that we have not. When I was watching the Thanksgiving parade on television. I decided we couldn't do that kind of thing in Britain, we don't have the flair. We have a few drum majorettes, but they look very very amateurish and unsophisticated compared with yours...
...down with excitement over what they have seen." All five of the automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...