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...were explained last Saturday as officials unveiled one of the most radical schemes for economic growth in the 35-year history of the People's Republic. After 618 delegates had gathered behind closed doors for seven days during what was officially known as the Third Plenum of the Twelfth Central Committee, Chinese leaders released a 16,000-word resolution outlining a complex package of new economic reforms. The program consolidated Deng's five-year attempt to promote a free-market system in the countryside. More important, the new scheme extended those reforms to the long-stagnant cities, thereby...
...pioneer. Airborne since 1981, the no-frills carrier now operates 56 jetliners and a route map that stretches from Los Angeles to London and includes 26 cities. While its revenues (1983: $286.6 million) are still well behind those of behemoths like United ($5.4 billion), People Express is already the twelfth-largest U.S. carrier. Its secret: low costs that enable it to undersell the competition, along with unusually strong employee morale. The average annual salary for People Express's 14,000 full-time employees, who are all nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm...
...more power than any other single person. When I finally get through the protective devices and the phalanxes of guards and aides, I am always a little concerned at how fragile and vulnerable the Chief of State appears-just like any other human." Says Sidey of his twelfth interview with Reagan, conducted in the President's suite in Dallas' Loews Anatole Hotel, 26 stories above the convention uproar: "It was one of the best I've had with him. Reagan's juices were flowing: he looked and moved like a man of 40. For half...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
...from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom in the three productions she brought to Los Angeles is Asian: Japanese for Richard II, Indian for Twelfth Night and a mixture of both for Henry IV, Part I. The actors either paint their faces white or hide them with masks; they wear Oriental dress and usually run rather than walk across the vast, bare performance area. No ordinary stage was large enough for Mnouchkine's requirements...