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...anyone who has ever slogged through a heap of unsolicited playscripts can attest, a shortage of talent and inspiration in a country ambivalent at best about the purpose of its theatre. But on the basis of its first program of three short plays--one amusing, mildly potent vaudeville sketch and a couple of icky, sentimental deadbeats--its biggest obstacle is its own bourgeois, Broadway-bound sensibility. The APS has rescued the wrong orphans...
...equipment enables engineers or draftsmen sitting in front of computer screens to make precise, elaborate and exquisitely detailed drawings of any piece of machinery or industrial part imaginable, without ever using rulers, compasses or any of the other traditional tools of the drafting trade. They can simply "sketch" freehand with an electronic pen right on the screen, and the computer, reaching into its memory, gives the rough shapes the precise tolerances requested, even rendering them in three dimensions, or creating solid forms...
...loan, for which Company President James A. Kollar had to put up personal collateral, Koltanbar bought an Applicon design system with a computer, two work terminals and a printer. Once installed, the system began to produce immediate savings. Soon draftsmen working from a designer's sketch, who previously needed 120 hours to produce a particular polished drawing, were knocking them off in a day. A major project that once would have taken 190 to 220 weeks could now be done in 80. Though the company is producing more work than ever, its number of employees has dropped from...
...energizing efforts elsewhere. In Cincinnati, the art-deco train terminal, headed for demolition, was turned into an elegant shopping center. In midtown St. Louis, Partners is promoting the restoration of two historic theaters for performing arts' use. This week in Richmond, local design students, prodded by Partners, will sketch ideas for improving the dowdy riverfront in hopes of stirring up local interest in salvaging the area...
...rash of thefts of women's undergarments has swept the MIT campus this month, prompting the police there to organize a campus-wide search for the culprit based on a composite sketch of the man thought to be the perpetrator of the crimes...