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...ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes in a 25,000-seat temporary arena specially built in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ali retreated to his training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains to whittle away the excess pounds. More than two months of arduous workouts reduced him to fighting trim; he weighed in at 217% Ibs., the lightest he has been since 1974, when he won the title for the second time from George Foreman in Zaire...
...essentially linear plot, this one seems to require an excess of exposition, and the film lacks both snappy comic writing and truly suspenseful action. Beatty aside, the minor characters are not developed with much flair. Sam Waterston, as a onetime Matthau protege in the agency now forced to lead the pursuit of his mentor, is bland in a blandly written role. Herbert Lorn, as Matthau's friendly rival from the U.S.S.R., is too friendly for the good of the picture. The film lacks a needed air of menace...
...supply in the non-Communist world. Aside from the high inventories, there is also considerably less demand because of the global recession. Before the Persian Gulf war, according to British Energy Secretary David Howell, free-world production was exceeding consumption by about 2.5 million bbl. a day. The excess had resulted in a general agreement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at their Vienna meeting two weeks ago to slash output by 10%. "My understanding is that the [OPEC] agreement is now on ice," Howell said in Washington last week, meaning that the other OPEC countries would maintain their...
...With an excess of demand for too few places, admissions officers have become choosy. The process at San Francisco's Town School for Boys is typical: parents meet the headmaster, return for a tour of the building, and then bring their young candidate for a visit; finally, during a fourth trip to the school, the child spends an all-important hour as a member of a play group under the watchful eye of the school staff. Among the weighty questions: Can he hold a pencil? Play with others? Put a puzzle together? "We want somebody who is compatible with...
...barely two years after seven gulf emirates-Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah-set aside tribal quarrels to form a loose federation. The cornucopia of oil money has yielded perhaps the highest per capita income in the world for Emirates citizens (in excess of $100,000 a year) and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state. But the Emirates face the most serious population imbalance in the region: of a population of 900,000, fully 80% are foreigners...