Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information given in TIME: I inform you that there are at this stage no negotiations under way concerning a meeting between myself and P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat [April...
Contrary to popular belief, the Hasty Pudding stage will not remain dark now that "Overtures in Asia Minor" has closed; the theater will host the Harvard Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet this weekend and next. There's not much one can say about the world's most famous tragic love story, except that this interpretation has a great deal of "fast and furious" action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman...
...alternatives will require technological breakthroughs. The fluidized-bed method of burning coal-essentially, burning a mixture of crushed coal and sand suspended on a column of air inside a superhot container-promises ultimately to make combustion more efficient while cutting down on pollutants. It is now in the experimental stage, but has yet to be made applicable to large-scale commercial operations. Unlocking oil from the vast deposits of shale rock in the West at present is uneconomical, produces gigantic piles of ash, and uses too much valuable water. But tests indicate that oil may be burned...
Meanwhile, another shocker on prices provided further evidence that after just five months, the President's Stage II anti-inflation effort is flagging. In March wholesale prices zoomed 1%, or at a compounded, annual rate of 12.7%, the same as in February. Leading the price index was food, which jumped 1.2%, with particularly severe rises in beef and veal. So far this year, beef prices have increased at an annual rate of more than 100% and are expected to remain oppressively high for the rest of the year. The standard Administration forecast calls for inflation to moderate...
Saturday morning was gloomy on Lake Carnegic. There was a light wind blowing and a misty rain falling--but at least the water was calm. The stage was set for a heavyweight showdown between Radcliffe and Princeton (with Cornell thrown in for additional wake production...