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...through purely visual experience. That sense of unity was not nearly strong enough when the production opened in Leverett House last weekend. With a cast better-practiced by a week, the real problem raised by this trilogy may seem not whether Yeats can be performed well, but something much stickier: whether anyone who doesn't love Yeats can really like his plays...
...unions' demand for an excess profits tax is a far stickier matter. To A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economist Arnold Cantor, the issue is simple equity. "The income of wage earners is the wage; the income of business is profits," he says -and if one is limited the other should be too. By almost any measure, however, profits are not now excessive but depressed. U.S. corporate earnings after taxes, at an annual rate of $46 billion in this year's second quarter, were actually lower than in 1965. Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits...
...newspaper editors involved were faced with a stickier problem: how to handle the stolen information. Inevitably such documents can contain inaccurate, outrageous "raw" data based on unchecked hearsay. Attorney General Mitchell's statement was a direct plea to the press to suppress the information at hand. Yet the Washington Post, quickly followed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, decided to publish accounts of the theft as well as the general contents of some of the documents. Said Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor, after a telephone call from Mitchell: "We thought...
Should Christian investments have a Christian conscience? For years most churches have avoided obvious immoral profit from sources such as slums and brothels, but lately they have become involved in stickier moral issues. Last week Presiding Bishop John E. Hines announced that the Episcopal Church will demand at the next General Motors stockholders meeting that the company end its operations in South Africa...
...lowered his sights with a floor-length black vinyl apron atop flaming red briefs. (It is not the most practical outfit, but that did not seem to matter when Raquel Welch modeled it.) Mostly, Courrèges fell back on the old jumpsuits, made of vinyl and stickier than ever, with cutouts cut out wherever the scissors led him-and in one bikini he reached the bottom...