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Singing aside, Tucker McCrady's playing of the sorcerer who sold the love potion to Alex had the sold-out audience roaring with laughter. However, his one-liners and humorous antics could not save The Sorceror from an overall lack of energy. The blame for this major flaw falls on the shoulders of director Thomas P. Large. His attempt to spice up the play with jokes not originally in the script failed to enliven his production...
...American farmers, has joined the ranks of Chrysler and Lockheed in pleading for a federal bailout to save it from collapse. FCS officials last week went before Congress and in dire tones declared that the system needs $6 billion in federal aid to stay afloat. Said Ray Moss Tucker, a Kentucky dairy farmer and the group's chief spokesman: "Our request for assistance is one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. But we have no choice...
...chief cause of the current crisis is what Tucker calls "some of the steepest drops in land values ever." In just the past year, farm real estate values plummeted $100 billion partly because large food surpluses and depressed crop prices have made agriculture less attractive. Lower land prices have been devastating to the FCS because most of its loans are real estate mortgages, in which collateral is now greatly eroded...
...magazine, co-edited by Robert Tucker and Owen Harries, has a press run of 5,000. But Executive Editor Tod Lindberg predicts circulation will reach 12,000 within two years. The nonprofit magazine is supported by several conservative groups, including the John Olin Foundation, which contributed $600,000. Kristol is already optimistic enough about the journal's potential influence to label it part of a new "trinity," along with Foreign Affairs (circ. 90,000) and Foreign Policy...
...this month, the number of computers in U.S. classrooms has reached some 1 million (up from 630,000 last year). More and more of them will be used to teach the sort of practical skills that Angie found profitable: financial modeling, data-base management and word processing. Explains Marc Tucker, director of a Carnegie Corp. study on the subject: "Increasingly, schools view computers as intellectual assistants, as tools in the hands of kids, not as things to be programmed or to deliver instructional material...