News of the week in review
SPACE CENTER, Houston Negligence from the launch pad through the entire Apollo program and its contractors, along with poor design, caused the explosion of an Apollo 13 oxygen tank near the moon a space agency investigation board reported.
Board Chairman Edgar M. Cortright blamed the space agency and two of its contractors for allowing substantiated heater thermostat switches to be installed in the Apollo command ship.
He said failure of these switches
started the chain of events leading to the explosion April 13.
ing to the explosion April 13. "It was a serious oversight in which all parties shared" Cortright said.
WASHINGTON — A possible compromise that would fix a 30 day limit on any future commitment of American troops to battle without congressional approval emerged Monday in the Senate's continuing confrontation with President Nixon over Cambodia.
Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), a staunch critic of American policy in Southeast Asia, introduced the
legislation which was immediately endorsed and co-sponsored by Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) a conservative midwesterner, who frequently speaks for the White House.
Javits said he did not know how President Nixon felt about his idea. But he said he considered the proposal the possible basis for a compromise to head off a constitutional crisis created by U.S. military operations in Cambodia and the continuation of the Vietnam War.
critical of the press and of student dissenters, said the slogan of descalating the rhetoric is "the new favorite of editorial writers of all shades of opinion."
But rhetoric needs to be elevated to a higher plane, rather than being suppressed, he said.
"In its improper definition as invective, the rhetoric has already de-escalated," he said.
WASHINGTON—The government, moving to clear up new questions involving the draft system, said the Supreme Court's ruling on conscientious objectors will not be retroactive.
Selective Service Director Curtis W. Tarr, responding to the high court's ruling that a person need not hold a conventional religious belief to be a conscientious
objector in the draft, said it does not apply to anyone who has been ordered for induction.
Until the Supreme Court acts on that specific question, its decision will not be applied to such persons as boxer Cassius Clay, who had appealed his induction on grounds his Muslim religion qualified him for conscientious objector.
MIAMI—Sniper fire and rock throwing broke out in Miami's predominantly black section of Brownsville.
Shakespeare business profitable to Stratford
STRATFORD ON AVON, England (UPI)—"The play's the thing," Will Shakespeare wrote and he was about half right.
The other half of Stratford's thing is Will Shakespeare himself.
The disturbance stemmed from complaints of overcharging, poor quality merchandise and dirty conditions at the market. Blacks also charged the store, owned by Fred Weller, a white man, charged too much.
Stratford would be just another dying country town without the Shakespeare industry. Today this industry's heart, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, is throbbing steadily through its $9\frac{1}{2}$ month season. Business is the same as always—phenomenal.
According to purists, the Shakespeare industry has ruined Stratford just as the tourist industry has ruined the Costa del Sol. They decry the Shakespeare Tea Rooms, the ticky tack souvenirs, the Shakespeare Garage, the proliferating hotel rooms named for his plays.
DETROIT — Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew hit back at newspaper editorial writers who he said have urged him to cool his rhetoric toward dissenters in American society.
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But to American visitors, Stratford's commercialism doesn't strike all that sour a note. Most find it a lovely country town, immensely worth visiting for Shakespeare's birth place, Shakespeare's tomb, Anne Hathaway's romantic but fire scarred cottage and "the theatre."
There's only one theatre here. Its undistinguished red brick hulk protrudes over the Avon's swans and is flanked by lovely gardens. Inside are 1,343 seats and standing room for 88 people.
"We play to approximately 95 per cent over the season," said a spokesman for the Royal Shakespeare company. That means this year, over a season running from April 1 to Dec. 12 only 5 per cent of the tickets go unsold, including standing room.
This year's program is especially ambitious—seven Shakespeare plays plus one by an Elizabethan contemporary, Christopher Marlowe. Mounting such a season requires a fair sized industry in itself.
Agnew, who has been strongly
Thirty-one college physics teachers are participating in a summer Institute for College Teachers of Physics at the University of Kansas, June 15-August 8.
The institute is designed to provide teachers of physics in small colleges and junior colleges with a first hand knowledge of both classroom and laboratory materials that have recently become available. It is directed particularly to those whose college training was not primarily in physics.
Gordon G. Wiseman, professor of physics, is director of the institute. The selected teachers receive stipends for their participation while earning six hours of college credit.
31 attend institute in physics
Every prop, every costume, every scrap of scenery is manufactured by the company's own people in its own workshops. Besides the Stratford season, the company fills the Aldwych Theatre in London with modern plays and non-Shakespearean classics. It tours abroad—Japan and Australia earlier this year—and tours the British provinces with smaller scale productions
Thus, for every actor on stage, the company employs 10 persons behind the scenes. Its total acting company this year is 47: its total employment is 520.
This means that despite ticket sales which would make a commercial theater rich, the Royal Shakespeare loses money. Its government subsidy granted through the Arts Council amounts to $640,000 this year.
Under Artistic Director Trevor Nunn—who took over the massive company at 28 and hasn't turned 30 yet—the Royal Shakespeare has developed a lean sparg style which sacrifices nearly everything to the Bard's language.
In a typical production the stage is a gapping box almost bare of scenery. Costumes are simplified Music and lighting are minimal.
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