Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place where one took a plane to cover a story somewhere else. The change is . tragic, to put it mildly." He wrote the main Middle East story in this week's issue, and has contributed a personal view of the bloody strife in the Lebanese capital (see box page 27). He has even found time in New York to take in a few movies for the first time in many months and one Broadway play, Equus...
Flag-Draped Coffins. The killing of the ambassador, the fourth U.S. envoy to have died at the hands of assassins in the past eight years (see box), triggered an order by President Gerald Ford to evacuate any U.S. citizen from Lebanon who wished to leave. With Beirut airport closed, the mode would be a convoy to Damascus, about 90 miles away via back roads, presumably under the protection of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the first phase of the trip, the Syrian army, which has occupied much of Lebanon, over the second stage. An 18-vehicle trial run organized...
...threat of jail, whenever a policeman demands one−include photographs, place of residence, employer, taxes paid and special curfew privileges if any. The average black salary in Johannesburg is $140 a month, only slightly more than the cost of living for a family of five in the box houses of Soweto. Average white salaries, in contrast, are at least five times higher. If Sowetoians are lucky, they may advance to such jobs as computer programmer or bank teller, not necessarily restricted to whites. If they manage that, they can join Soweto's minuscule black elite (less than...
...Kung Fu, scifi, porn, soapers, chasers and period pieces with such uneven degrees of tackiness and brilliance. From India to Japan, the film studios of Asia churn out more than 1,200 pictures a year, the work of moguls like Hong Kong's Run Run Shaw (see box) and one-shot entrepreneurs and ephemeral actors. A survey of the state of the industry in Asia's major countries...
...first partner in the late '30s when, as a teenager, she danced classic roles at the old Sadler's Wells Ballet. Dame Margot is 57 now. She per forms, she says modestly, because people still ask her to. She is, in fact, one of the great international box office draws in show business. Audiences who pay to see her as the wealthy widow of Pontevedro will get their money's worth in her warm, elegant presence and the effortless charm of her acting. To go hunting in the back of the mind - as one does...