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...athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...
Part of the reason for the zigzag effect is that Burger has been less adept than Warren was in building consensus?or even promoting amity?among the nine jurists. Stories about bickering behind the bench have been surfacing regularly. Promoting harmony would not be easy for any Chief Justice now because of the court's delicate ideological balance. There are three consistent conservatives (Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist), three liberals (Douglas, Brennan, Marshall) and three swing men who are often unpredictable (White, Stewart, Powell...
...found the study of Renaissance history at Brown University so stimulating that he contemplated a teaching career and served briefly as an admissions officer. But after taking his master's in U.S. economic history at Brown, he joined the investment banking house of First Boston Corp. instead. Stunningly adept at financial analysis, he rose to a vice presidency and the board of directors by 1969, joined International Paper Co. a year later and revamped its financial structure. In 1972, though inexperienced in broadcasting, the corporate Wunderkind was tapped for the presidency of CBS. An outspoken opponent of Government interference...
...Latin American life. A film like State of Siege by Costa-Gavras, however urgent the moral questions it poses, so completely lacks a human, social context that its political presentation collapses in a lifeless vacuum. At the other extreme, a director like Marcel Ophuls is Black Orpheus is so adept at capturing the vibrant rhythm and undulating color of life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro that his audiences are numbed to the excruciating reality of Brazil's urban poverty...
...earned only a pathetic $6.3 million profit on $2 billion sales; last year it nearly doubled its earnings, but it recently announced that it expects a loss in 1974. The company has been hit hard by credit restrictions and high fuel costs, and its managers are more adept at engineering than at marketing. If the left had won the French presidential elections in May, Citroën would almost certainly have been a prime candidate for nationalization...