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...Speaking at the Elysée Palace in Paris, Movie Fan Mitterrand then intoned: "Mr. Welles, we grant you the honor of Commander of the French Legion of Honor." The director of such film classics as The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane was less awed by his own craft. "The director is the most overrated artist in the world," boomed Welles, 66. "He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered...
...number of U.S. companies have noted a modish increase in their profits as well. Gerber Products in Fremont, Mich., makers of baby food, pacifiers, baby bottles and other merchandise, recorded sales of $282.6 million at the end of 1972. Last year sales had swelled to $631 million. Child Craft, in Salem, Ind., a baby-furniture maker, has noted a "remarkable upsurge" in sales. One of the reasons, says David Branaman, vice president of sales, is that some couples spend up to $2,500 on clothing, furniture and equipment by the time the baby comes home from the hospital...
...turmoil began a year ago. At that time, the Review regularly elected as editors 28 students whose grades put them at the top of the 550 in their class. Another 20 were selected after a writing competition testing ability to craft the dry, footnote-laden articles that go into the eight issues published each year. The process yielded a strikingly homogeneous group of 89 editors last year: none was black, one was Asian American and eleven were female. In contrast, the student body was 14% minority and 28% women...
...movie like Vice Squad comes along every few years to test the state of the R-to see how much lowlife energy can be splattered on-screen without drawing an X rating. It also offers technicians with eyes on loftier assignments a chance to parade their craft by aiming low, like a sniper at a grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills...
Quicker delivery times and lower initial costs were the reasons cited by Pentagon planners for urging the military to reconsider the C-5N. The existing plane is less expensive to manufacture than the proposed C-17, though the new craft was designed to operate at lower costs. To add to the attractiveness of its proposal, Lockheed offered to build the planes for the Government at a fixed price, without reimbursement for any cost overruns. Lockheed also promised to pay penalties to the Government if maintenance costs of the planes exceed company guarantees...