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Both the theater and the company are products of the lavish if uncertain tastes of ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness, 59. A Standard Oil heiress (courtesy of her late second husband), Mrs. Harkness has had a somewhat tempestuous career as a patron of the arts. Two earlier companies she sponsored broke up in complicated spats involving their artistic directors. Presumably to avoid any recurrence of these aesthetic quarrels, Mrs. Harkness is artistic director as well as proprietor of the present company, most of whose 39 dancers are graduates of her highly regarded school of dance...
...uncertain fortunes of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center took an upward turn this week after the University proposed a new site and additional financial assistance for the beleaguered student center...
...this leaves one thing that limits the profligate use of energy: high gasoline prices. To fill up the tank of a big car can run as much as $11 or $12 in places where gas costs more than 60? per gal. It remains uncertain whether such prices will cool the ardor of a nation for which freewheeling mobility has become a way of life. What is all too certain, on the other hand, are the consequences of the resumption of wasteful driving habits: the return of spot shortages, canceled trips, the whole headache of having to do without gasoline...
...nothing, he might have added, will happen, at least for a while. The informal gathering of EEC foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...
Kazana said she is uncertain about the reaction the center's closing will bring, but said that it would be a blow to the Harvard black experience...