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Such new problems and old wounds provide an opportunity for an upset by Representative Alan Steelman, Bentsen's GOP challenger. However, Steelman has problems of his own. His voting record in the House stands out as quite moderate in comparison to his fellow Republicans in the state delegation. He has complicated matters by attacking Bentsen from the left by support the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and from the right, by favoring state right-to-work laws and opposing oil company divestiture. This tactic has in effect reproduced Bentsen's problem of fracturing the electorate...
...dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes finally beats his habit and flies off on a new adventure, the entire case is beyond hope...
...Alan A. Stone, professor of Law and Psychiatry at the Law and Medical Schools and head of admissions at the Law School. said yesterday the extra information "might be useful, although we pay less attention than the Medical School to grades in particular courses...
Government growth figures for the July-September period will not be out until early next week, but many experts are already shaving their earlier forecasts of an increase of about 4% in the nation's output of goods and services to 3%-or less. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, says the prime reason for the slowdown is that businessmen piled up big inventories early this year, and had to hold back on new orders until the backlog was reduced. Greenspan believes the economy will pick up speed in the current quarter...
...some reason, the Miscellany box tends to collect science announcements, which as a rule don't sound too exciting. Alan Lightman of the Center for Astrophysics is speaking on "Quasars and Collapsing Clusters" at the Cahners Theater of the Museum of Science at 8 p.m. on October 20--go right ahead if you want, but don't blame me. If I were you, I'd wait until November 10, when William Press, also of the Astrophysics Center, is speaking on "Gravity Waves and Black Holes...