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Two of the biggest hits of the London theater season come from the pen of Ben Travers, an 89-year-old playwright who might well have been expected to have taken his final curtain. The National Theater has revived Travers' Plunder, serene fare today but daring when it was...
Approving Bottoms. Between the wars-World I and II-Travers turned out a series of farces sketching a Wode-housean gallery of silly asses of the English upper class, alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this...
The University also agreed to cancel plans to lay off up to 150 HUERA members in favor of part-time, non-union workers. "We feel that we've been guaranteed that there will be no layoffs," Travers said.
Also included in the new contract are three weeks' paid vacation after five years and four weeks after 12 years, as opposed to seven and 15 years respectively in the old contract, which expired November 30, Travers said.
Travers released the proposed terms after a meeting yesterday with Edward W. Powers, University director of employee relations, and Steven R. Domesick, HUERA's attorney, during which the new contract was written.