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...window. "We feel like vultures," said Curator Ronald Craw ford Brister. "People hate to see us coming." He noted that when the Firestone plant closed earlier this year, he had had to drop by and pick up the first tire produced there, in 1937, as well as the last tread off the assembly line...
...phone service in all states except Alaska and Hawaii, which have independent firms. But the 22 will be stitched together into huge new holding companies that are roughly equal in numbers of telephones and potential revenues. The holding companies, with small staffs at the top, will be free to tread where no phone company has ever gone, into almost any nonregulated business, except manufacturing telephones or certain kinds of information processing. Some have chosen to use the Bell name and logo, a privilege that Greene denied the parent AT&T, while others have attempted to get away from the dowdy...
Directors who make movies that are "ripped from today's headlines" must tread a narrow, tortuous path. Pay attention to all the political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit of Hong Kong's Ann Hui, the 36-year-old director of Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that...
...Swedish government has marshaled extensive evidence to support its case, including videotapes of tread marks on the sea floor, but it admits that it has no direct proof of the charges against the Soviets. The official Soviet news agency TASS denied the accusations, calling them "baseless propaganda," and even some Western intelligence experts suggest that the Swedish navy may have made the claims to deflect criticism of the unsuccessful search last fall. But many Western officials believe the Swedes, who have agreed to share information on the incursions with NATO...
Rusk said yesterday that a major goal of his administration will be to reverse the recent tread toward professional graduate training in law, business, and medicine, by encouraging students to purses the "vigorous, inventive, imaginative and broadly educated mind" that traditional graduate study in arts and sciences provides...