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...meantime, besides imposing inner-directed orientations on those who climb aboard the pre-professional train, this structure will continue to drive countless Bills over the fine line it draws between unreality and insanity. The new mood on campus and the pre-professional crunch are symptoms of a malady much wider in scope than the pre-professional education structure. But perhaps it is about time that Harvard came more to grips with the question of whether those it sends on to the professional schools are these most qualified for and concerned about providing health care and legal services to society...
...France sought to justify its plane's loud takeoff by explaining that the pilot was trying to climb unusually fast in an effort to limit noise over populated areas. British officials told an annoyed Secretary of Transport William Coleman, who has allowed the planes to land only on a 16-month trial basis, that their takeoff plans had also been changed for this reason...
...tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange for the storied chase through Manhattan streets and a climb to the 110th floor of New York's World Trade Center. Because the cost of King Kong has escalated from $13 million to $22 million, De Laurentiis has already scheduled a sequel: King Kong in Africa. Who could afford to tell a $3 million leading man that...
France too is happily revising its forecasts upward. French G.N.P. is expected to expand 5% or more this year rather than the 4.7% anticipated earlier. Exports should climb by 6.4%, and auto sales already are up 20%. Another barometer: champagne sales, after two bad years, are bubbling almost 40% ahead of the 1975 pace...
...crane over an indoor water tank to film an enormous caged seraglio at the edge of a Venice canal. "Motore!" he shouted, and the cameras rolled. The harem was wild with excitement as Casanova's gondola glided past. Fellini exhorted the girls chosen for the scene to climb their cage like monkeys to get a better view. "Higher, Fernanda!" he roared through a megaphone. "Climb higher and hang those lovely boobs of yours through the bars." The girl followed instructions, hung on precariously and was rewarded by a blown kiss from "the maestro," as he is known...