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...shook up Britain's largest private company from the front office to the production line. He turned a stodgy, Commonwealth-oriented company into a lean operation with new muscle to flex on world markets. Now Chambers wants out. For all his efforts, I.C.I.'s actual performance remains sluggish. And he puts part of the blame on Labor government policies; he complains that "any fool can save the pound by damming the economy." Opting for a far less demanding job, Chambers will leave I.C.I. next spring to become head of London's Royal Insurance...
PHILADELPHIA, November 4--Penn's talented soccer team gave Harvard a well-aimed kick in the pants here this morning, but insead of revitalizing the sluggish Crimson the boot knocked Harvard out of serious title contention., 3-0. The Quakers opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, and the Crimson never came up with that extra effort needed to get back into the game...
Cornell coach Jack Musick, a long-time aide of Dartmouth's Bob Blackman, has patterned his defense after the Indians. He uses many variations and depends on speed much more than on power. In Musick's first year at Cornell last fall. Harvard danced all around the big, sluggish linemen who were bequeathed...
...matter how sluggish they may appear, Pinter's people arrive on stage primed for combat, and words are their weapons. For a Tennessee Williams, language is a rhetorically scented bouquet of roses to be showered on an audience in fond profusion. To Pinter, language is sniper fire: laconic, staccato, precise, designed to cut down the people one hates. He uses two kinds of speech: words that are dead and words that can kill. The dead words are the burnt-toast banalities of daily life: "I've got your corn flakes ready. Here's your...
This year that policy seems wiser than ever. In the past, Lincoln Center featured new films by the creative experimenters of the art-house circuit-Bufiuel, Resnais, Kurosawa, Losey. The 1967 scene offers an old and a new Godard (Les Carabiniers, Made in U.S.A.) and a sluggish Rossellini (The Rise of Louis XIV), but otherwise gives itself over to cinematic unknowns. Unfortunately, few entries rise above mediocrity...