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...Eagle keeps a close and critical eye on the local General Electric plant, employer of two-thirds of Pittsfield's work force. Last winter, Richard K. Weil, the Eagle's industry and labor reporter, was barred from a GE press conference in New York after he reported the destruction by GE officials of a company-published-and pessimistic-business forecast...
Salaries are modest ($216 a week for reporters with seven years or more experience), but staffers enjoy considerable freedom. Some who had planned to use the Eagle as a steppingstone decided to remain. Recalls Weil: "I walked in and got a summer job eleven years ago and I'm still here...
Threepenny Opera. Music by Friedrich Weil, libretto by Bertoldt Brecht and production by Leverett House. It should be a winning combination. "Mack the Knife" is Richard Nixon's favorite song...
...RICKY WEIL...
When he returns to London, Orkney starts going to church. At the British Museum reading room he soaks up religious history, anthropology and Simone Weil. Friends call to see if he is all right. He is. His dreams have revealed the neglected half of his existence-the part that was always larger than his politics or his personal ego. His life jumps into sharp focus. He sees that his son is fated to learn all the old lessons as if they were new. He gets the truth about himself and his old-guard comrades just right. "Once they had forecast...