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Actually, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor is not merely a play, but a play for actors and orchestra, and therein lies the trick. One of the two main characters, the mad Ivanov (John Wood), believes that he owns an orchestra, and is put in a Soviet insane asylum...
...better medical understanding, new drugs and such sophisticated monitoring and screening techniques as ultrasonics and amniocentesis. Yet while the U.S. helped start this revolution in perinatal and neonatal* care, it still lags behind a dozen other countries in infant-survival rates. To help solve this problem, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., allocated $20 million for a five-year experiment that established or expanded regional networks-three in California, two in New York and one each in Ohio, Texas and Arizona. All deliver specialized care for high-risk pregnancies, that is, those that pose danger to mother...
...associate editor, Smith wrote this week's World story on the African leader, drawing on files from David Wood, our current bureau chief in Nairobi. The passing of Kenyatta, perhaps the last of the grand old men of the African nationalist movement, is a milestone in the history of independent Africa...
...scientific meeting in Manhattan, Lowell Wood, a young physicist from California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, delighted his colleagues (although he did not exactly convince them) with a plan to give the earth a virtually limitless energy supply. He suggested tapping the energy of a mini-black hole in orbit around the planet. From a spacecraft orbiting at a safe distance, pellets would be fired at the hole. This would create so much heat that the energy could be converted into microwaves and beamed down to earth. Even Wheeler, who is now at the University of Texas, and his former student...
DIED. Charles Eames, 71, modern designer whose name became synonymous with his curved chairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. In 1941, while designing molded machine parts for the U.S. Navy, Eames collaborated by night with his wife Ray to produce the "potato chip," a sculptured wood back and separate seat, both affixed to a steel frame. Today his molded plastic chairs are found in airline terminals and office lobbies the world over...