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...hand may shake and the stride may falter, but good old cowpokes just never quit. After 34 years of movie retirement between them, Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers, 63, and Joel MeCrea, 69, will be riding the range once again this summer in feature-length films. Rogers, who left movies 21 years ago and now runs an Apple Valley, Calif., museum, will star in Mackintosh and T.J., his 90th picture. "There's no leading lady, no shooting, some fights, but no blood spurting, and that's the way I wanted it," he says. MeCrea, who left 13 years...
...leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible candidate to replace him if Rabin should falter...
Such a repetitious maneuver is exquisite torture for the corps de ballet, but it danced with a purity of feeling and tautness of leg muscle that did not falter. Nureyev's staging was a light modern gloss on the original Petipa choreography. It was also an exercise in personal nostalgia: La Bayardère is the crown jewel of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet where Nureyev was trained...
...because Lesser doesn't let the irony falter even for a minute--"I have a fixt Confidence, Gentlemen, in you all," Macheath explains, taking out his revolver--the love some of his numerous wives persist in feeling for him, even though they know that in a depraved world love is a sad mistake, can serve as the standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband...
Meanwhile, traffic is expected to falter if a further economic slowdown leads to lower corporate profits, higher unemployment and reduced discretionary income. Airline Analyst John Laporte of Wall Street's Pershing & Co. foresees passengers deserting the lines because of the "inconvenience factor" of limited schedules. Laporte forecasts that, compared with 1973, traffic will show no gain this year and may even drop as much as 5%. Many other analysts echo the prediction of United President Edward Carlson, who expects "zero growth" for the industry this year. Average profits probably will run to a slim 4% on investment...