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...Prankster Aaron Kay, the man who once pasted Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the face with a cream pie, had struck again. This time the pie was apple crumb and the victim was New York City Mayor Abe Beame, who was participating in a mayoral forum at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Fortunately for Beame, the pie merely splattered his blue suit. The mayor shrugged off the caper with a quip: "I like the Big Apple, not apple...
...BEST SPORTS MOVIE I ever saw was Pride of the Yankees, the 1942 tribute to Lou Gehrig featuring Gary Cooper as the ill-fated Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people...
...shipyards and reduce the nation's trade deficit, but in the long run, by raising costs, would reduce both total employment and national production. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat noted that not only Blumenthal but CEA Chairman Charles Schultze and Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper "feel that no version of cargo preference is acceptable," but added that "rejection of cargo preference will be seen as a broken promise...
Dollar's Drop. Along with its critics, Treasury also has supporters. Richard Cooper, the former Yale economist who is now Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, believes that the major central banks can easily smooth out the money market movements caused by the dollar's drop. Adds Brookings Institution Economist Robert Solomon, noting the big trade surpluses enjoyed by the Japanese and the West Germans: "To any reasonable person, the appreciation of the yen and the mark is desirable." Moreover, Solomon contends, the shift in rates is not that great. For example, though the dollar has slipped...
...people, and then the TV people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...