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...almost any measure, White House Years is a big book. Thirty months in the writing, it runs 1,521 pages, close to three-quarters of a million words. Little, Brown, the Time Inc. subsidiary that owns North American rights to the book, plans a publication date of Oct. 23 and a first edition of 225,000 copies, an exceptionally large number. The price...
...from openly challenging the President and thus risking a bloody party brawl. He would prefer to see Carter pushed out of the race by pressure from the party and the dismal evidence of the polls. Late last week the President was hit with the most staggering poll news to date: an Associated Press-NBC News survey indicated that only 19% of the Americans polled thought Carter was doing an excellent or good job. That was the lowest approval rating for any President since such polls began in the 1930s - including Richard Nixon's 24% just before his resignation...
...Otello, Les Troyens and Peter Grimes. Nicolai Gedda, an elegant, unfailingly attractive singer, is a supremely versatile stylist, at home in several languages; at 54, however, he is understandably not a powerhouse. Perhaps the challenge ultimately will come from a younger singer like Jose Carreras, 32, though to date he has shown neither the strength nor the subtlety of Pavarotti...
...itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date was $35 million. In the unlikely event that Chrysler went into total bankruptcy and reneged on its pensions, the federal agency would have to put up perhaps $780 million. The Pension Corporation, whose assets total around $250 million, would be forced to ask Congress for additional funds to cover Chrysler...
John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the Faculty, said yesterday this date applies to the date permission for the make-up exam was granted, not the date the exam is taken...