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...week's lone liberal address, and Reagan delegates broke into noisy disapproval, NBC Anchor Men John Chancellor and David Brinkley contemplated a souvenir towel from the 1968 convention. With few thoughtful exceptions in the anchor booths-ABC's George McGovern on the vice presidency, CBS'S brisk Bill Moyers on virtually anything, Walter Cronkite on mercifully little for a change-television proved once again that it explains less effectively than it informs...
...Sanders Theater on Tuesday night. Its members were all on stage, true--but as the nucleus of a chamber orchestra whose roster included some of Boston's best free-lance musicians. Accordingly, Tuesday night's performance, the sixth and last in the Chambers Players series, was marked by brisk enthusiasm and a high level of technical competence...
...Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over for doing 76 in a 55-m.p.h. zone. But no jail awaited Natalya or the startled author of The Gulag Archipelago. Instead, they received a brisk lecture on traffic customs, U.S. style, and a $25 fine. Hit hardest was Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, who was assessed $800 in Mexico last week after she failed for the past two months to pay the wages (a total of $640 per week) of the 20 gardeners and grounds keepers...
...brisk upward march of the economy from the nation's worst postwar recession, the relatively free-spending consumer has so far led the way. In marked contrast, spending by businessmen for new plant and equipment, which is critical to sustaining the business upturn, has been notably laggard. True, corporate capital spending is at last increasing, and most experts believe that it will reach satisfactory levels late this year. But others are worried that the outlays are coming too late, and that as the economy speeds up, industrial capacity will run into production bottlenecks and shortages that will kick...
Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while...