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...status in Viet Nam, have been unwilling to take menial jobs. A senior official of a volunteer agency reports that several refugees refused a position as night clerk in a hotel in Buffalo, partly because of the job's nature and partly because of the city's frigid winters. Says the official: "Not all of these people realize that, like other refugee groups in our history, they must start at the bottom, then move around later...
...chick who matures with the help of alcohol and drugs, but she modified the role to a more normal adolescence. She also objects to nudity in films: "It violates my privacy." That stand prompted Co-Star Kirk Douglas to ostracize her on the set. He accused her of being frigid. "It seems funny now," says Deborah. "But at the time it took all my strength to hold back the tears. I never want anyone to think I'm one of the thousands of 'starlets' who will do anything to be in a movie...
Virtue believes in "the ancient verity of thrift" and wants to use the bank as a community resource. Vice (who comes equipped with a frigid wife and an effete son) cares only for profit. It is he who pushes a dangerously large loan to a multinational corporation at the expense of municipal bonds and local construction projects. Meanwhile, as background, Hailey provides a bank theft, a counterfeit-credit ring, extramarital affairs, race problems and a Robert Vescoesque corporate swindle...
...myth and the reality take on many forms. The classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant...
Ford's compromise with Congress on energy allowed him to argue, with considerable justification, that he had provoked the Democrats into coming up with alternatives to his energy program. Even so, the reaction of some G.O.P. leaders in Congress ranged from frigid to tepid. They told Ford that they were cautiously optimistic that the veto would be sustained in the Senate and that they were gaining ground in the House...