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Presumably, Bill Miller will get along better with Jimmy Carter, the man who hired him. A workaholic, lawyer and team player who helped Royal Little build Textron into a profitable, wide-ranging conglomerate, Miller is disciplined yet humorous, and pleasant to deal with. He refuses to compare himself with Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Adroit Switch at Money Central | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Side two is the exposure of Joel's hidden talents, his tremendous creative ability. Though much of the side is not of as high caliber as the material on side one, it is remarkably diverse. Probably the weakest cut of the side is "Vienna," a bluesy lament filled with the...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: More Than Just a Piano Player | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Everything is relative, and it is only natural to compare this film to Star Wars. In this comparison, Close Encounters loses. It is not as funny, exciting, eye-boggling, or unreal, Star Wars was unadulterated fantasy and does not make pretensions of reality. Close Encounters tries too hard to be...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

To compare this kind of activity with the formation of a natty personal wardrobe is a sorry reversal of the fable of the emperor's new clothes. There is a major difference between furnishing one's mind and clothing one's body.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Furnishing the Mind | 12/10/1977 | See Source »

In 1970 the Association of American Medical Colleges began an affirmative action drive recommending that blacks should comprise 12 per cent of all first-year medical school classes by 1975-76, to compare to the percentage of blacks in the national population. However, that year only 6.8 per cent of...

Author: By Timothy R. Noah, | Title: Early Figures Indicate Drop in Black Applicants To Med School This Year | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

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