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...Beset by some of the worst weather in decades, winter racing in New York would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season...
...Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
...administration's decision not to push for the punishment of the students was yet another example of the type of behavior that has led to fitful progress on the various problems that have beset the university during the past several months. Faculty and student outcry against the administration's lethargy in settling the strike, and its insistence on making an example of the arrested students, had intensified as the month of October dragged on, with no resolution of the conflict in sight...
...that is about to change. Government economists calculate that every day off represents a loss of about $475 million in national production. That is intolerable in an economy beset by a 17% inflation rate, about 7% unemployment and a huge balance of payments deficit. So, when he announced a new austerity program recently, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti included in it a measure to skip two civil and five religious holidays (among them: St. Joseph's Day on March 19, Republic Day on June 2, St. Peter and St. Paul Day on June 29) when they occur next year. Five...
Since the opening, the bank has run up an operating deficit of $400,000. That is not unusual for a new bank of First Women's small size (capital: less than $4 million). But the bank has also been beset by management problems that officers are reluctant to discuss publicly. Employees grumble that the troubles start with frequent policy disputes that divide the 12-member board of directors, which is headed by a Manhattan lawyer, Evelyn Lehman, and includes four men. Some directors got into the venture for idealistic reasons but soon discovered that the job of guiding...