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...absolutely clear-cut if the play is to make sense, and very few of them are. Jeffrey Harper's Perry is an overly blustery old man, and an overly vapid young one. Jill Clayton is even less believable in her role of the understanding mother and repressed woman. Alison Becker's Marina, the daughter who is sometimes a child, sometimes a sensuous torch-singer, and sometimes a cynical adolescent who rejects moral absolutes, is the best realized of the three, but even she can't quite draw the fine lines between each characterization her part requires. The rest...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Treasure Hunt | 4/30/1976 | See Source »

Stephanie Becker Mamaroneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 5, 1976 | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

This same serenity marks Surgeon Carl Becker of the Protestant Africa Inland Mission, who has spent 46 years in the interior of Zaire. Hopping by plane from outpost to outpost, Becker once routinely performed up to 15 major operations a day. Now 81, he continues to work at a large new center at Nyankunde, awaking at 5 a.m. to pray with his staff before his rounds. He and his ailing wife Maria may soon leave Africa. The Zaireans would like to see the couple ultimately buried there-a great tribute to whites-but the Beckers do not want to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS AMONG US | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...John Becker, a spokesman for the Pentagon Public Affairs Office said the blacklisting policy was not a retaliation against colleges that cut ROTC...

Author: By Rick Blatt and Mark Sadowsky, S | Title: ROTC Funded Scholars Can Now Attend Harvard | 10/8/1975 | See Source »

...state force has installed CB sets at its own expense, troopers are reaching the scene of serious accidents in one-third the time it took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported one who got but a fleeting glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Drivers' Network | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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