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What is immediately striking and highly effective is the set, simple in appearance but truly complex. Jennings and designer Albert Webster deserve plaudits for the sheer cleverness of the entire three-level set rising from under a bare white cover, suggesting a reborn Phoenix rising from the embers of the protagonist's imagination. Less successful, however, are the rather eerie and harsh sounding original score and the flashing colored lights in the background, tending to be more an annoying distraction than a subtle evocation of mood...
Stone, who took the semester off to complete the manuscript, will enlist the writing skills of his brother Webster A. Stone '84 and a friend on the Lampoon to do illustrations...
...their campaign to combat the political terrorism of the Red Brigades, Italian authorities have been moving against the Mafia with increasing vigor in recent months. Meanwhile, the U.S. has also been doing better as it has stepped up its attack on organized crime. According to FBI Director William Webster, narcotics investigations alone produced 700 convictions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 1983. Justice Department investigations have produced such minor victories as the 1980 conviction of Joseph Bonanno for trying to thwart a grand jury investigation, the 1980 conviction of Crime Family Boss Frank Tieri for racketeering...
...Suffolk County garbage collections attest, is amply active. The President's Commission on Organized Crime, established last summer, estimates that the Mafia takes in up to $168 billion a year in the U.S., or more than the gross domestic products of Greece and Austria combined. Says FBI Director Webster: "There are few businesses or industries in our communities that are not affected by organized-criminal enterprises. This brand of crime is costing the American people billions of dollars every year...
...just sort of camaraderie," said senior guard Kevin Boyle, who sailed through the post-game rush with Arne Duncan, Keith Webster and Bob Daugherty. "They don't know we're there or anything...