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...Seesaw (by William Gibson) needs only two for the cast. Henry Fonda is an Omaha lawyer, downhearted and adrift in New York while being divorced. Anne Bancroft is a warmhearted, racy-tongued, Bronx-to-Bohemia floater whom he meets at a party. All her life she has given too freely; he all his life has taken. Shuttling between their shabby little flats, they carry on a love affair in sickness and in health, in banter and in woe, bridging a cultural and temperamental divide better than they can blot out a memory of marriage...
Safe Counsel will be particularly valuable to those who look back nostalgically to the golden age of universal morality. For those adrift on the sea of relativism and naturalism, Safe Counsel is a Gibraltar of immutable rules of conduct...
Cubs' Corral. In all but a distinguished handful of papers, daily business sections consist of a raft of market statistics adrift on a pallid sea of wire-service snippets and puffs for advertisers (also known as BOMs or Business Office Musts). In business coverage, editors even overlook readily apparent local trends that often build into stories of national importance. Example: Los Angeles is one of the nation's biggest electronics centers, but most hard news of the industry comes to Los Angeles dailies from wire services and national publications...
...independent Fund for the Advancement of Education has at times stirred the ire of professional educators, and the Fund for the Republic, which the foundation founded and set adrift, has stirred the ire of practically everyone else. Fulton Lewis Jr. devoted a whole series of broadcasts to denouncing the Fund for the Republic, and the national commander of the American Legion charged in 1955 that it was "threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security." Some citizens have boycotted Ford cars; others deluged Henry Ford II with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany...
Crisis, which loves a vacuum, hovered last week over the kingdom of Jordan, a desolate desert nation of 1,500,000 Bedouins and Palestine refugees, broke and adrift now that its imperial British creators have left. Last week, seeing his country beset from within and without, Jordan's young (21) King Hussein bravely grabbed power for himself to save his crumbling country from crackup...