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...foreign competition, expensive energy and inadequate investment. The first recipient of such assistance is likely to be the factory belt stretching from Pennsylvania to Michigan that encompasses the auto, steel and rubber industries. Financing would be channeled through an existing Government agency such as the Economic Development Administration. The EDA would invest in large-scale projects and help industries to modernize their factories and improve or change their products in order to compete in world markets. Carter's economic renewal plan will probably also recommend the establishment of a national commission to be composed of representatives of Government, labor...
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Robert Tear, Soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). In his final work, the ailing Berlioz took Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and made it into his own Tempest, a blend of wit, ardor and gentle sadness bathed in the amber light of a late Parisian afternoon. The opera may be better heard than seen, since its extended passages of French dialogue make it problematical to stage; certainly it is a pleasure in this buoyant...
Whyte discussed a congressional bill which he helped draft, the Volunteer Employee Ownership Act. The bill, if approved, will provide the Economic Development Agency (EDA) with $1 million a year to furnish technical and financial assistance to employees, and to study different forms of employee-owned factories...
Under the bill, the EDA would be responsible for developing an informational system to assist workers and managers in deciding how their company would be run. In order to receive money the workers and managers must be aware of all the other options of control...
...written, all the characters are relatively wooden, and to push beyond stereotype requires unusual subtlety and conviction. Of the performers in this production, Eda Rabinovitz alone (as the mother) plays her part from the inside out. She makes the events real by the truth of the characterization rather than the other way round...