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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lumet and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler follow the structure of the Peter Maas biography. The portrait of the wounded Serpico, being shuttled to a hospital from Harlem, hooks us as the film opens; we then flashback to the highlights of the policeman's career and life. These chart the growth of the man's disillusionment and discontent, as well as the strength of his personal integrity. The film develops with its title character: the derailment of Serpico's life both by those police who were corrupt and those who refused to inflict punishment, carries as much emotional power...
...sugar, even potatoes. Most of all, the nervous are buying gold, a mystical symbol of eternal value. The price of gold rocketed up to a record $163 an ounce in London last week, almost double the quote a year ago, and up $23.50 in less than a month (see chart...
...warheads deliverable. Russia has not only more launchers than the U.S. (see chart page 18), but bigger missiles?with up to 120% more throw weight. The U.S., however, has almost twice as many warheads on its missiles. Thus, as Harvard Professor Paul Doty puts it, "If you are a [U.S.] hawk, you argue throw weight, and if you are a dove, you argue warheads...
...BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY, Bette Midler. Song of the year. Peaked on the Billboard chart in July at number eight. Midler came into her own here after her offensive recording of a slow "Do You Want to Dance?" Dynamic, good-time sound; harmony by overdubbing her own voice. Joni Mitchell's current single, "Raised on Robbery," is in the same style...
Skimpy Diets. The unrelenting demand for farm goods has also sparked a new round of increases in commodity prices, which in 1973 leaped upward more by far than in any recent year (see chart). Late last week on the Chicago Board of Trade, wheat was selling for $6.16 per bu., up $1.75 from a year ago. and corn was going for $2.86 per bu., v. $1.22. The New York economic forecasting firm of Townsend-Greenspan has estimated that wholesale farm prices in January rose 7½%, the biggest such increase since last August...