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LIFE GOES TO THE MOVIES. 304 pages. TIME-LIFE Books. $19.95. "This book," reads the candid introduction, "is about a magazine's love affair with an industry." It was not unrequited. LIFE's crisp pictorial layouts, its salty reportage and limitless palette made it the studios' favorite. The proof is on view in the pages of this opulent valentine: sections on "The Stars" ("More than there are in heaven" boasted MGM), "The Buildup," "The Movies," "The Studios" and "Behind the Scenes"; pictures of every player from Charlie Chaplin to Dustin Hoffman; stories of scandals, sex and scenarios...
...developed the company's profitable foreign routes (to the U.S., West Europe, Japan and Hong Kong) and ran the line with brisk proficiency. To take their places, Pratte appointed people with political connections but little airline experience. Results: Air Canada's flights, once renowned for their crisp punctuality, were constantly delayed, and ground crews regularly managed to lose luggage-including, on two occasions, Pratte's own bags...
...afraid that the new man will pay more attention to the winds of American politics than the needs of facing up to the Russians. NATO officials got a good look at Rumsfeld while he was the U.S. Ambassador to the alliance, and while they became used to his crisp style, they rank him far behind Schlesinger, who they feel is a brilliant strategist. One NATO official said that his colleagues welcomed having "a tough-minded guy like Schlesinger around who acts as an alternative opinion to Kissinger...
...voice is raspy and his talk so crisp that it borders on brusqueness. He has little patience with incompetence. When a subordinate once tarried too long over an explanation, Rumsfeld snapped: "Come back when you have something to say." He projects an air of aloofness; he also creates the impression that he is too clever by half, that he coolly evaluates everyone he sees. "Each time you meet him, it's for the first time," says a White House aide. Yet Rumsfeld's intense, controlled style is a nice counterbalance to Ford's fondness for relaxed good...
...festival began appropriately enough with the symphonies. Dorati led the National in crisp, meticulous performances of Nos. 1, 52 and 104 the first night, and Alexander Schneider led the Curtis Institute Orchestra surgingly in Nos. 6, 7, 8, 22 and 35 on the second and third. It was enough to demonstrate that the Austrian court composer who had once dined at the servants' table was one of the most astounding revolutionaries in all musical history. Haydn did not invent the idea of the symphony. But when he picked it up, the symphony was the most innocuous of musical forms...