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Finally there is the Margot Fonteyn problem. She was an incandescent Princess Aurora, and when she appeared in the role during the Sadler's Wells Ballet's American tour in 1949, she stole the nation's heart, sending thousands of youngsters to the barre. There are no Fonteyns available right now, no one with her ineffable mix of youthful poetry, gaiety and ever so ladylike sexiness. Still, audiences and critics alike, including many people who surely cannot have seen Fonteyn in the role, continue to compare all other interpretations with hers. So what is a ballet troupe...
Four Quincy House students gave a dining hall worker who tied the knot Saturday a unique wedding gift. Andrew H.M. Ayre '87, Jon E. Goldman '87, David A. Kirsch '86-87, and Stephen E. Pomper '87 last Thursday hired a male stripper named David to give Aurora Dias a memorable send...
...example of the manpower problem is the situation at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Ill., which handles an airspace that includes O'Hare, one of the world's busiest airports. On paper, the center has more controllers than its authorized strength of 350. But only 183 have reached full-performance-level status. Where it was once standard for controllers to be at their positions for only four of the eight hours in a shift, the norm at Aurora is now six. Coupled with mandatory overtime, this pace, contends one Aurora controller, "is burning most...
...computer systems, many of them 20 years old, are also burning out. The Aurora control center lost a backup computer on Aug. 3, and while it was being repaired, the main computer went down for nearly four minutes on Aug. 4 and for an hour on Aug. 5. A control center in Albuquerque was knocked out for 40 minutes on Nov. 6. The busy Washington center lost all its radar and computers for 20 minutes on Nov. 29. When this happens, pilots have no choice but to fall back on "see and avoid" flying practices. But that is sometimes difficult...
That air of discriminating toughness was hardened during her marriage, which was, as much as anything, a rhyming of opposites, a marriage of public and private. "She was a very supportive wife," recalls her mother-in-law Dona Aurora. "She was content to remain in the background. She did not meddle, she stayed at home." As it happened, she had little choice. "Let's face it," the President likes to say with a wry mixture of affection and realism, "my husband was the original male chauvinist...