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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When last seen in That 'II Be the Day (TIME, Dec. 16), Jim MacLaine had left his wife and child in a dreary English town for a stroll down the glory road. He wanted to learn guitar and get himself into the palmy world of rock 'n' roll. In Stardust, MacLaine finds success -more of it than he bargained for or can handle...
...Goldwin goes about this is to arrange small White House lunches and dinners during which Ford and his top aides can drink in the views of eminent intellectuals (TIME, Dec. 23). At the third such session last Saturday, Ford conferred informally with four people of diverse interests: Thomas Sowell, a black U.C.L.A. economist, author of a forthcoming book on race and economics; Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor of history at the City University of New York; Edward Banfield, a specialist in urban affairs who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and wrote the iconoclastic The Unheavenly City; and Herbert Storing, a University...
...Influence in the February 26th issue of The Crimson raises serious doubt as to the validity of this and all other art reviews published by the paper. Upon reading the review I was immediately struck by the similaritles between these comments and a review by Pauline Kael in the Dec. 9, 1974 issue of the New Yorker. Specifically, Stephen, like Kael, begins his review with a few comments on the theories of schizophrenia expressed by R.D. Laing. Dispersed throughout the article are several particularly unusual phrases used by Kael in her review. One of Stephen's lines reads as follows...
...anchormen from the evening news programs of the three major networks. The point was, of course, that the nightly fare of dismal national economic news so far means little to Kansas' largest city, where unemployment is only half the U.S. average and industry is still healthy (TIME, Dec...
Thus were seven weeks of rumors dissipated in a puff of smoke. Since Brezhnev vanished from public view on Dec. 24, he has been widely reported to be medically and politically moribund. Some Kremlinologists predicted that if he failed to greet Wilson, who was making his first state visit to Moscow in seven years, that would confirm the direst of long-distance diagnoses. On the eve of the British Prime Minister's visit, the respected Paris daily Le Monde cited "informed Soviet sources" as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a "brutal" relapse from cancer, or, alternatively, cardiovascular disease. Other...