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This edict may seem unfair--particularly since it applies even if the seaweed threatens to float away before Monday--but it is not a demonstration of the irrational malice of the local judiciary. The ruling merely upholds the state's Sunday Blue Laws...
...whole training program paid off so well that the A.S.U. seems almost afraid its swimmers may relax and float on their laurels. When Lainy Crapp and Dawn Fraser were invited to Hawaii's Keo Nakama meet to be held in July the A.S.U. threatened to withhold its approval unless both girls prove that they are in top shape. "They're Olympic champions," said an A.S.U. official-just as if any Australian had forgotten. "We don't want them to jeopardize their chances by competing out of condition...
...Russian Research Center has termed it "a breach of confidence unparalleled in Soviet economic history," the new moratorium will probably not change the Soviet economic system radically. For, coupled with his announcement April 8, Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government would not float any new loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been encouraged to buy bonds totalling about three weeks' worth of his annual salary, this is an economic blessing. In return for this boon he can virtually bid his present investments farewell. Yet the worker who has been buying his quota...
...reason for the Russian move is far from clear. If the present system were continued, the government would float bonds every year in order to cover the repayments on matured issues, as is done in most western nations. The government probably faces an especially heavy load of bonds due in the next few years. A short-term moratorium, however, would relieve this difficulty...
...impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After her famous entrance ("ravished; her hands cut off and her tongue cut out") she is fully successful...