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...devoted moviegoer, the nephew might have foreseen the all too predictable misadventures that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...
Ajootian has been a standout in an indoor track and field season constantly beset by landslides. Coming off last year's team has only managed to eke out a paltry 1-3 record and a poor showing in the championship meets. Coach Bill McCurdy, after it was all over, described the injury-plagued team's performance as disheartening...
Arthur Beale, Conservator of the Fogg, is constantly beset with urgent phone messages about paintings, Botsettis (delicate gilded clay figures) and other treasures needing attention. Beale supervises a staff of 1 conservator scientist, 6 professional conservators, an administrative assistant and 6 apprentices or interns. Science serves Art in the four laboratories on the fourth floor of the Fogg. In rooms filled with jars of chemicals and glues, equipped with machines like an infra-red spectrophotometer, Beale's crew works to preserve the Fogg's treasures...
...situation is somewhat more complicated. The dissidents have indeed become a significant issue between Moscow and Washington, at the very moment that both sides are trying to get arms-control efforts back on the track. But the Russians are also beset by other serious problems at home and abroad. The Soviet and East European economies are strained, Soviet influence in the Middle East continues to decline, and the "victory" of pro-Russian forces in Angola is proving a mixed blessing, because it has led to a new American concern about Soviet expansionism. Besides, a specter is haunting Europe-the specter...
American Motors Corp., smallest of the four U.S. automakers, has always been an up-and-down company, but lately it has hit a longer-than-usual losing streak. Beset by both bad luck and bad judgment, A.M.C. lost $73.8 million in its past two fiscal years. Its own accountants warned that the company's ability to stay in business depended partly on whether it could repay or extend bank loans that fell due in early 1977. By the time Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. faced stockholders at the annual meeting last week, that crisis had passed. Chapin told the group...