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...report, a 515-page monolith submitted to the Department of Labor, includes a statistical breakdown of the University's work force by gender and minority group, as well as a listing of each faculty's federally-mandated hiring goals...
...Agatha Christie mystery about a director and a star (Hudson and Taylor), who are married. They descend on Miss Marple's village, circa 1953, there to take up residence while working on a movie intended as the star's comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role...
...Meese, Reagan's top counselor; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, talks frequently with Richard Allen, Reagan's chief adviser on foreign affairs and the man likely to become his National Security Adviser. As a result, insists Watson, "there is no paralysis. There is no breakdown in our capacity to react...
...With the Polish economy in a tailspin, the Soviets last week gave their suffering satellite $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Most analysts believe Soviet military intervention is a distant last resort, to be used only in case of serious disturbances or a total breakdown of party control. Jozef Klasa, chief spokesman for the Central Committee, gave credence to this view when he said: "If the threat to socialism is real-and I think this could happen when authority slips out of the hands of the democratic process -this would end in drama and tragedy...
ALICE SUFFERED her first breakdown at 19, and was bedridden with multiple ailments by the time she reached her forties. Her list of infirmities resembles an-encyclopedia of nervous disorders common to nineteenth-century women: at various points in her life, her condition was called neurasthenia, hysteria, rheumatic gout, suppressed gout, cardiac complications, spinal neurosis, nervous hyperesthesia, and spiritual crisis. Although it never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first...