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...week, but in a way that was at once tragic and bizarre. After a three-year refusal by Cambodia's new rulers to admit Western news correspondents to Democratic Kampuchea-as Cambodia now calls itself-two American reporters, Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Elizabeth Becker of the Washington Post, returned to the U.S. with detailed accounts of a two-week visit. A third member of their party, British Scholar Malcolm Caldwell, 47, did not leave Cambodia alive. He was shot to death by antigovernment guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Silence, Subterfuge and Surveillance | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...changes in pitch and volume, projecting intensity of thought and feeling in quieter moments. James Bundy's Octavius Caesar strikes a few puzzlingly bfzarre, manic notes where he shrieks incomprehensibly and furiously rattles off his lines, but he successfully gives us a consumed, highly charged man of action. Dan Becker as the waterlogged messenger and David Johnson as Antony's loyal servant contribute modestly and well, and Bill Shebar playing Fortune, primly dressed in black, is a slimily ambiguous amalgamation of prophesies and pronouncements...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Floating Shakespeare | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

...Felix Becker, a Lufthansa spokesman, said it was not immediately know exactly what was taken, although some canceled checks were missing. He said the thieves seemed to know, what they were looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thieves Net $5 Million in Heist From JFK Airport Cargo Area | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

...gambling issues from 50% to 75%-meaning that buyers would have to put up at least $750 for every $1,000 stock purchase. The Big Board said it was acting "to insure the protection of public investors and the maintenance of a fair and orderly market." One firm, A.G. Becker of Chicago, banned all credit on five particularly jittery stocks. These moves depressed the gaming issues, but not for long. Indeed, the gambling-stock rebound last week helped spark a broad market rally. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 28 points, closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Casino on Wall Street | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility--Gary Becker, Univ. of Chicago, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Calendar Listings: May 4-May 10 | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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