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Today, the desert terrain is animated by Caterpillar tractors, huge construction cranes hovering over the metal skeletons of warehouses and the rising silhouettes of four mini-Astrodomes that will serve as petrochemical storage tanks. A seemingly endless procession of huge earth movers trundles sand and rock to the water's edge, where the fill is used to extend an immense quarter-mile-wide causeway, one of the largest landfill operations of its kind. When completed in 1985, the six-mile-long causeway will provide berths for up to 18 ocean-going cargo ships at a time. At its farthest...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. In an interview with Playboy magazine, the actress recalls the result of her long ago stint as statuary inspiration: "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The scene now shifts back to Boston...
Andrew Farkas doesn't work in small numbers. As a compulsive and prodigious computer jock at the Trinity School in New York, he organized Data Mini-Systems Corporation, which provided software and hardware to small businesses and professional offices, and turned it into a million-dollar enterprise before giving it up to come to Harvard...
...Chase persisted, some securities firms might find themselves in a cash squeeze. After the session, the Feder al Reserve issued a statement saying that it "stood ready as a lender of last resort" to help any commercial banks temporarily short of cash. It was the first time since the mini-financial panic following the 1970 bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad that the Federal Reserve had put out such a market-soothing statement...