Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluded that no technical or economic barriers stand in the way of Britain's admission. The commission's report will be presented next month to the foreign ministers of the Common Market members, who then must decide when Britain will be allowed to advance to the next stage and begin formal negotiations for admission despite Charles de Gaulle's displeasure...
More Stately Mansions. Watching a Eugene O'Neill play fail is sometimes as awesome as seeing the Titanic sink. More Stately Mansions, however, is more like a becalmed Flying Dutchman on which trapped passengers spend three hours torturing one another and ranting about their fate. On the spacious stage of Los Angeles' elegant Ahmanson Theater, site of the play's U.S. premiere last week, Mansions stays within hailing distance of the playgoer's interest, but it never gets heartbeat close...
...Sophia's co-star (with Peter Sellers and Jonathan Winters) in Sophia's first musical, an ABC special called With Love...From Sophia, which will be shown on TV next month. No hoofer, Sophia rehearsed for weeks before taking on Marcello, who danced in a 1966 Italian stage musical. "I'm not Margot," she conceded after taping the elaborate number, "but then Marcello's not Nureyev. So it's great...
...hire and fire at will. It also suspends payroll deductions for union dues, enables the companies to ignore seniority rights and normal grievance arbitration procedures. Beyond that, by making the U.A.W.'s constitutional ban against wildcat strikes inoperative, the contract expirations will no doubt encourage union militants to stage local walkouts. Any production curtailment at G.M. or Chrysler would ease one of the main pressures on Ford to come to terms...
...confidence, many critics consider the leasing companies highly vulnerable to risks beyond their control. Admits President W. Carroll Bumpers of GC Computer: "The independents have to fathom when to slow down leasing of third-generation equipment because of obsolescence." There is little agreement among experts as to when that stage will arrive. While the immediate prospects for the computer-leasing companies seem bright, their profits could plunge, leaving them with a mountain of debt, if the fourth generation of computers reaches the marketplace sooner than they expect. The crucial time will probably arrive...