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...group in Finley's operation that does end up losing is his front-office staff?the smallest in baseball, and probably the most overworked. In 15 years, Finley's autocratic rule has used up five scouting directors, six farm directors (last week the seventh, John Claiborne, quit in disgust), ten publicity managers and 16 broadcasters. He sends the staff scurrying with round-the-clock calls?there is even a telephone in the men's room (located a safe distance from the clubhouse)?and supervises everything from bat orders for the players to food in the press room. Frank Ciensczyk...
...Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, by far the smallest of the camps with only 5,000 refugees, there has been only a 2% breakdown rate, and officials predict that out-processing will be virtually completed by Oct. 1. This is in part because of Eglin's small size but also because it has had very good relations with nearby communities. Surprisingly, the camp's many semiliterate fishermen have been among the fastest to find jobs. Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place...
...AUTHORITARIANISM. Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency. To attempt to terrify them, serves only to irritate their bad humour, and to confirm them in an opposition which more gentle usage might easily induce them . . . to lay aside...
...cast of players who portray a sizeable sample of the 2642 inhabitants of Grover's Corners touchingly and devotedly serve the script that Wilder said was "an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." The characters all talk pretty much the same way, but Wilder could not have fashioned their colloquial speech without a keen ear and much hard work...
...discover how exciting this music can be without the excessive retards and breakneck tempos that often pass for authentic Russian interpretation. Rozhdestvensky, a principal conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, plays the work straight. Yet in the way he builds his performance from the inside out, making sure that the smallest phrases are in place, he gives the impression of blissful discovery. Part of the conductor's complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, this LP is highly recommended, even if it lacks the suavity of Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic and even if the Moscow Radio Symphony...