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...agility of a spectator's shifting eye-a spectator, moreover, who must constantly feel that he is committing an invasion of privacy. It is to the film's credit that Faces evokes a slight sense of guilt: the viewer keeps watching, even when he ought to avert his eyes...
...have to compensate their sterling allies for most of their losses. The bankers intend to give the British economy time to recover. If it does, the pound could possibly thrive again as a center of international finance. Even if it does not, a diminished role for sterling may help avert some of sterling's recurrent crises...
...FRENCH, by Francois Nourissier; THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. France's cultural achievements and sophisticated tastes, say these two candid Frenchmen, mask crumbling institutions and outdated attitudes that must be changed if the country is to avert disaster...
...FRENCH, by François Nourissier; THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. France's cultural achievements and sophisticated tastes, say these two candid Frenchmen, mask crumbling institutions and outdated attitudes that must be changed if the country is to avert disaster...
Meet Snik Dixon. Rockefeller figures that without the leaners, Nixon has 550 delegates (needed to nominate: 667). His strategy is to avert a first-ballot Nixon victory. This forces Rocky into an unspoken alliance with Reagan, who still dreams of leapfrogging a Nixon-Rockefeller deadlock to the nomination. Rockefeller's emphasis on the Wallace threat could redound, however, to Reagan's benefit among Southern Republicans. Southern delegates for Rocky are as rare as square marbles, but a fair number might go for Reagan on the theory that his conservatism might be an effective alternative to Wallace. When Rockefeller's aides...