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Chaplin's naive, humanitarian, and decidedly leftist politics got him into trouble in the United States in the early Fifties, and when he refused to alter his stance he was denied re-entry into the country after a European vacation. Insulted, he purchased a villa in Switzerland, where he lived until his death last month at the age of 88. He rarely left his retreat, coming to America once, two years ago, to receive a special Academy Award, and going to England several years ago to be knighted...
...across his desk. The Soviets cannot match us. There is not only better technical know-how in the U.S.; the inability of the Soviet system to induce uniform excellence is a drag on its effort to catch up. Carter is the first modern President to appreciate how technology can alter the balance of power overnight...
...months, the President has been urged not only by business but also by Democratic leaders in Congress to alter his tax plans. Al Ullman, the House Ways and Means chairman, has been pleading with Carter for a "minimalist" rather than a "maximalist" tax bill. He warned the President not to heed the arguments of White House hard-liners on reform. House Speaker Tip O'Neill was equally emphatic. The only way to get a tax bill through Congress, he insisted, was to put tax reduction ahead of reform-and separate them. If the two elements were joined...
...sales in the fiscal year ended Oct. 29 rose almost 30%, to $1.5 billion. Profits, it is true, dropped 14.4%, to $35 million, but they were coming back up in the final quarter. Labor's hope is that the new higher penalties for violating a national injunction will alter the rules of battle and Stevens will suddenly find that it no longer pays to fight...
This play is likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...