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...turning point, and I think that we are going to come into one of the greatest and most exciting periods in the history of the world. Jean-François Revel, author of that book Without Marx or Jesus,* wrote on this subject and said: "I don't think the answers are going to come from the Communist world or from the old, European countries. The one place where there is flexibility and creativity enough is America." I remain an optimist. I see opportunities for improving the quality of people's lives not only here but in other...
Impressive Horsepower. Pittsburgh will have to do every bit as well to contain scrambling Fran Tarkenton and the Vikings. In his 15th N.F.L. season, Tarkenton, 34, has lost little of his shifty speed and maneuverability. And this year, as last, he has impressive horsepower behind him, notably Running Backs Chuck Foreman and Dave Osborn. Foreman ran for 777 yds., caught 53 passes and scored 15 touchdowns (tops in the league) in helping the Vikings run up a 10-4 record. For the long bomb Minnesota has mercurial John Gilliam at wide receiver...
...achieved a kind of instant canonization in 1899, when it was learned that he died performing his amorous arts in a ground-floor room at the Elysée. The liaison amoureuse, in fact, is as venerable and popular an institution in Paris as the Comédie Française-the government-subsidized theater that has traditionally provided sinecures for aspiring young actresses willing to serve overtime as political mistresses...
...federal grand jury in San Fran cisco is about to complete a 14-month investigation of sugar-pricing practices and is widely expected to return indict ments against several sugar companies soon. The Justice Department has an nounced that it is conducting a separate investigation of possible sugar price fixing...
...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...