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That is when the Maryland pep band strikes up "Hail to the Chief," and as the 14,000 madmen in the stands cheer wildly. Driesell parades solemnly to midcourt, bows his head, and raises both arms, his fingers extended in a Churchillian V-for-Victory sign. Victories have been none too plentiful around College Park in past years, and Driesell, the "messiah of Maryland basketball," is being depended upon to bring the Terrapins to a position of national power in college basketball. Ultimately, he is expected to wrest the national title away from UCLA...
...presidential assurances that the surcharge was not permanent. Nixon compared Canadian dependence on U.S. capital to American dependence on European investment before World War I. The U.S., said Nixon, "would do nothing that would make Canada feel it was a colony of America." It was not much to cheer about, but Trudeau made the most of it. "I've changed my mind about the U.S. attitude," he declared. With an eye to his Canadian audience, he said that Nixon had "recognized the entire freedom of Canada...
Christmas is traditionally a time when the movie studios upend their cornucopias, spewing out many of their major films in the hope of capitalizing on all the good cheer ∧and spare time. Once this meant primarily "family films," light comedies and musicals. Nowadays, such things appear mainly in the continuing fad for nostalgia, as exemplified by Ken Russell's new version of The Boyfriend. For the rest, a striking number of film producers arc celebrating Christmas with a new wave of violence and bloodshed. Among the entries: Macbeth, Roman Polanski's first film since Rosemary...
Prince of Demons. Outside the stock market, uncertainty may not be the prince of demons that it is on Wall Street, but neither is it a force for optimism. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists showed somewhat less cheer at a meeting last week than they had at their last previous gathering in late September. Economists who had predicted an unprecedented $100 billion rise in national production next year stood by their forecasts, but confessed that they felt less sure. Walter Heller and Robert Triffin noted that industrial production is still 6% below its peak in 1969, that...
...done an efficient, unpretentious job of moving the actors on that stage. His is an "amateur" production in the best sense: everyone in it seems to be having a good time, and the warmth comes across. At times, in fact, the melodies (not the lyrics) and the general good cheer of the enterprise overcome all else...