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...Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
...only twist added to the familiar punishment v. deterrence arguments came in the scathing amendment proposed by death-penalty foe Senator Har old Hughes-that executions be broadcast on radio and television. "If Senators believe there is a deterrent effect inherent in the death penalty," Hughes reasoned mordantly, "then my amendment will provide a way to greatly increase this deterrence." Hughes' amendment was defeated...
...like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad to have Wallace on the ticket with him in 1976. The Governor also met with his old foe, AFL-CIO President George Meany, who came away doubting that he would vote for Wallace but acknowledging that the Governor had definitely mellowed...
Crimson freshman Peter Tetlow, who had been ambushed by a Princeton buzzsaw named Curtis Hayden in the 500-yd. freestyle on Thursday, fell again to his Tiger foe in the grueling 1650-yd. event, this time by only two frustrating seconds...
Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and no foe of the oil companies, believes that the key reason has been price. At the end of December, he notes, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decreed a 130% hike in crude prices, sharply increasing the potential value of oil in the holds of tankers at sea. If the oil was unloaded in the U.S., it could be sold only at Government-controlled prices; if it was diverted to Europe or Japan, it could be sold for much more. "There is considerable evidence that there were fairly...