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...Crimson golfers broke a four year Penn State winning streak Saturday when they fought back from a 15-stroke deficit midway through the 36-hole tournament at Princeton to snatch the team trophy from the favorites...
Thus it is surprising that phone workers actually chose to strike over their demands for higher pay-which is up for regular renegotiation under "wage reopener" clauses midway through their three-year contracts. Most of the militance comes from the C.W.A.'s 23,000 central-office installers. The highest-paid men in the industry (earning some $3.27 per hour v. $2.76 for the average phone worker), they have hooted down industry offers of a 71% pay increase over the next 18 months, are demanding a whopping...
...likes of the menacing Colthurnus (David Palmer) the phantom prompter of the play-within-the-play and the stock, intuitively and irrepressibly daft Pierrot and Columbine figures, played by Jeffrey Blum and Lorraine James, of the play-without-the-play, the production seemed to slow down irreparably midway through. But Dean Ahmed, directing, manages to frame an unexpected climax to end the play on a note of crotchety sarcasm. The vivid costumes and masks were designed by Ellie Meglio...
...transition from pre-history to future becomes a simple cut from the bone descending in the air to a rocket preparing to land at a space station midway between earth and moon. A classic example of Bazin's "associative montage," the cut proves an effective, if simplistic, method of by-passing history and setting-up the link between bone and rocket as the spectral tools of man, one primitive and one incredibly sophisticated...
...Midway in Rock Singer Jimi Hendrix's concert at Cleveland's Public Music Hall last week, the master of ceremonies asked the audience to check under their seats: there had been a bomb threat. But as it turned out, the only explosion that night was onstage. Said Hendrix: "Nobody but Jimi burns a house down...