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...rush hours but never hopelessly snarled. Some 500,000 regular users of city transportation (including thousands of schoolchildren) had to find another way to get to their destinations. Most hiked or biked uncomplainingly up the city's hills. But more than a third of the student body was absent because some school-bus service had been curtailed. When boilers broke down, many schools went without heat. Some city fountains were overflowing because there was no one to repair them, and burst water mains went unattended. Streets were dirty, and uncollected garbage piled...
Since geographical distances are nominal, Britain gains from cross-fertilization between the bustling regional theaters and the London scene. Trevor Griffiths' Comedians originated at the Nottingham Playhouse. All of Alan Ayckbourn's recent plays, including Absent Friends, were initially presented at the Library Theater in Scarborough (Yorkshire), where Ayckbourn is director of productions. The underlying significance of the two leading repertory companies, the National Theater (TIME, March 15) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, is not simply that they exist and command ample subsidies but that they represent touchstones by which all members of the English theatrical community...
...ABSENT FRIENDS by ALAN AYCKBOURN...
Judge Robert Merhige, 57, thought that previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions meant that "private consensual sex acts between adults are matters, absent evidence that they are harmful, in which the state has no legitimate interest." But Judges Albert V. Bryan, 76, and Oren R. Lewis, 73, held that the state could ban such conduct because it "is likely to end in a contribution to moral delinquency." It was their ruling, though not necessarily their reasoning, that was upheld by the high court last week. The three dissenters would have heard full arguments before handing down a decision that now stands...
...good example of the misuse of warning slips is their issuance against employees who have been legitimately absent due to illness. Management has made a series of incredible statements to justify this practice. Edward Powers, director of employee relations, said last fall that "Regardless of doctors' reports employees who frequently are out...are unsatisfactory employees," to which his assistant Charles Off added, "It is an employee's responsibility to remain healthy" (Harvard Independent, Nov. 13-19, 1975). The following statement by Radcliffe manager Sweeney appears on the warning slip she issued to a woman worker who had been sick...