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...Soviet human rights violations, approve of his informal style and think that he can be trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics and small businessmen. Carter could pick up still more support after NBC broadcasts on April 14 a tape of one of his days in the White House...
Police are almost certain that four of the murders were committed by the same man. The chilling conclusion of Birmingham Police Chief Jerry Tobin: "We think he is a white-collar-class person or a professional man-somebody who is trusted, like a doctor, a policeman, a member of the clergy." Asked if that means neighbor should watch neighbor, his answer is a terse...
...gradually they responded. I Never Told Anybody (Random House; $8.95) is a collection of the patients' poems and Koch's highly readable account of how he coaxed his students along. Since most of them had worked as domestic or blue-collar workers and had little knowledge of poetry, Koch started with the same introductory techniques that he had tried in the children's classroom. He de-emphasized rhyme and meter, encouraged repetition of words and phrases ("a slight artificiality to teach them to put things together in a new way," says Koch). He always suggested themes, like...
...drastically increases fines for white-collar crime (e.g. up to $1 million for gross consumer fraud...
...actors, Goberto Lewis Fernandez and Antonio Dajer Cerna, as Dr. Baglioni and Juan, give the most color to their roles. Almost buried under a 17th century cape and stiff collar, Fernandez mixes feisty arrogance with guile and pomp. Dajer (co-director with Chuck Gray) has engaging warmth as the young student and happy romantic. With robust simplicity, he blinds himself to the man-made net that entraps him far from the "green hills and sea foam" of his native Naples. Unfortunately, this makes his realization of the odiousness of Beatriz and the extent of his predicament as sudden...