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...winning name: PEÑA. Outside, young people cruised in cars down Denver's historic Larimer Street, chanting "Chicano power!" Echoing his campaign slogan, Federico Peña told the packed hall of supporters last week, "Let us create a great American city for the '80s...
...your otherwise splendid story on the new economy [May 30], TIME should have pointed out that the number of sophisticated jobs likely to be created by high technology is going to be disappointingly modest. According to Labor Department projections for the '80s, the U.S. will need 1.3 million additional janitors, nurses' aides and orderlies, but only 150,000 new computer programmers. For the majority of American workers, the high-tech age will further reduce the level of skills required...
...aside to utter one word worth a million dollars would not say "Plastics." Today he would whisper "Aseptics." That is the name for a kind of packaging technique, a sort of second cousin to the retort pouch used by campers. Aseptics may change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming as commonplace as potato chips and soggy sandwiches. Says Dick Ponte, a vice president of Stop & Shop...
...nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts are plain, without any emblazonment...
...example of the commitment shown by the generation of the '80s. Trubeau applauded a series of recent student efforts nationwide to keep figures such as U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick off companies which sought to honor her. To critics of these protests--who believe that such oustings of public officials is a violation of the freedom of speech--he countered. "When she was hosted from the stage at Berkeley this year, she was experiencing an expression of a free open society...