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...Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish whisper. Though the actress spent hours watching news and documentary footage of Golda, she only saw the grande dame of Israeli politics brighten once-in an old segment of TV's This Is Your Life. "They were all so serious, those films," says Bergman. "I wondered if Golda had ever joked or smiled...
Though the shuttle's cost overruns have caused penny pinching on other scientific projects, the future in space should now brighten for scientists, even if their experiments must ride on military flights. In 1985, the shuttle is scheduled to hoist a large, remote-controlled telescope into orbit high above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. From there, astronomers should be able to see out 14 billion light-years (seven times farther than they can see using the biggest earthbound reflectors), expanding the volume of the known universe about 350-fold and bringing them very close to what is presumed...
There are rows and rows of red and orange desk calendars, nameplate holders, In and Out boxes. "Somebody in the Government thought they'd brighten up offices with these things," explains Roller. "Now we are brightening up county clerks' offices in Iowa." County clerks are abandoning their 1917 Remingtons for the reconditioned electric typewriters that line the shelves of the warehouse. Roller regularly sends a truck to Washington, D.C., where "quite serviceable typewriters" can be obtained for Iowa agencies at between $50 and $75 (list cost when...
...unemployment picture has also begun to brighten. Normally, jobless rates continue to climb for many months after a slump bottoms out. But unemployment in the current downturn eased from a July peak of 7.8% to 7.5% in September, the lowest since April. Meanwhile, Commerce Department figures show that the economy as a whole expanded at an annual rate of 1% during July, August and September. Whether or not that poky growth can be taken as proof that the recession has passed, it does represent a sharp turn-around from the previous three months, when the nation's output...
Some of Detroit's warts were highly visible last week. Even as parking-lot operators were putting out potted geraniums to brighten the city's face for visitors, some 425 striking sanitation workers let garbage pile up along the streets. Bus mechanics, too, were on strike, forcing the collapse of local service that carries 200,000 people daily?although some residents claim the system has long been so poor that no one can tell the difference. In all, about 8,400 striking municipal workers (out of 21,700) tried to use the convention as a club to beat the city...