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They have gathered from all over the country on this dusty plain of Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, some 90 miles south of Washington. There are flags, and the sound of whistles and bugles, and the exuberant cries of young voices, chanting as they march by. This is the tenth national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and 32,000 youngsters have camped among the tall pines, like an army taking its rest after a string of victories...
...Paddy) Chayefsky, 58, Bronx-born, barrel-chested playwright who won three Oscars (for Marty, The Hospital and Network); of cancer; in Manhattan. First successful in TV, he wrote Marty as a humorous love story, was startled when viewers cried. He had three Broadway hits (Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man and Gideon). The essence of his writing, he said, was to portray "characters caught in the decline of their society...
Searle says there is one-tenth of a calorie in the amount of aspartame needed to match the sweetness of a teaspoon of sugar, which has 16 calories. Aspartame will be sold in tablet or granulated form to consumers next year under the brand name "Equal." Under the name "NutraSweet," it will be a food additive used in breakfast cereals, dessert mixes and powdered drinks. Searle plans to seek FDA permission soon to extend its use to carbonated soft drinks...
Matching parents, pupils and pedagogues-for a fee Paul Kingsolver, 15, was falling behind his tenth-grade class at Denver's Mullen High School, an expensive ($1,650 a year) Roman Catholic boys' school. His worried parents took him to Educational Counselor Elizabeth Carroll, a reading and speech specialist at an agency called the Academic Resources Center. "We found out," says Paul's father, "that he had missed a lot of the basics in grade school." Carroll recommended that he switch temporarily to Denver's Academic Prep School, which specializes in remedial work. "Now Paul likes...
...colorful costumes and Kabuki gymnastics. Rum Tum Tugger, the cool cat of rock (Paul Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down-and-out Grizabella: a tenth life. The stage becomes misty, an otherworldly light suffuses the theater, a giant tire rises eerily above the pussylanimous crowd, and Grizabella ascends, reborn and apotheosized, "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer." This is heaven for cats and a stunning, vertiginous climax...