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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS...
This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
...President Ford scheduled a press conference early this week at which he is expected to admit that the slump has worsened more rapidly than he foresaw when he submitted his 31 -point economic-policy package to Congress in October. He is likely to express special concern about the plight of the auto industry and to announce that he has asked his economic advisers for new ideas on how to fight recession-without giving up the battle against inflation, which the President still views as "Public Enemy No. 1" and, indeed, as the primary cause of recession...
...there are exotic trains still in ser vice. The Trans-Siberia Express is running, though there is a strong possibility of having a lady commissar as your sleepermate. Angola's Benguela line, whose locomotives are the world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and down mountainsides, as does Chile's Antofagasta & Bolivia. The great Sud Express from Paris to Madrid - with a stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star...
...express concern over indications of a growing anti-Semitic feeling in the United States. I hope that the Middle East conflict can be kept in proper perspective...