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...producers and pressagents. Whenever a permanent replacement was mentioned, she had only one suggestion: Dina Merrill, who at 56 is only one year younger than Bacall. Welch got the part and suggested that she and Bacall be photographed together, so that they could forestall any silly rumors about a feud. Bacall said no. She has other plans. In January she is scheduled to star in the road company of Woman of the Year...
Pipeline goes against the grain "This is kind of like a fight inside a family," said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who had likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...spring of Barbarosa's plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries. Now, in modern Kyoto, two brothers fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune...
Following the announcement from Paris, President Reagan ordered the Commerce Department to study the legal implications of the French move. But he went out of his way to play down the Euro-American feud. Reagan stressed to a television interviewer in St. Louis that Mitterrand had inherited the contract from his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Said Reagan: "Our allies pointed out to us that they had already gone forward to the point that they did not feel they could retreat." Washington could try to impose penalties, including fines and blacklisting in the U.S., if Alsthom-Atlantique...
...tried and true ways that they believe work just fine, thank you. In the past few years the two factions have been quietly wrestling for control of the nation's largest organization of police executives, the 13,500-member International Association of Chiefs of Police. Last week the feud came out in the open, and it was not an uplifting sight...