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Such defiantly unglamorous physical attributes might hamper the career of an aspiring stewardess on any regularly scheduled airline, but they have helped make Karen Black, 32, the busiest actress in Hollywood. She has just finished her sixth movie in the past two years, and last week she began work on her seventh, Alfred Hitchcock's Deceit. She has not sought out safe, sympathetic parts. She has played the teasing Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby...
...through some serious negotiations at Brown University, The Harvard Crimson is spending its time defending the lackadaisical minority recruitment effort ("We can't find anybody"), and the Administrative Board is laboring over a monkish set of Noise Rules that could snuff out any "disturbances during the day that would hamper study or contemplation...
...Beautiful People (BP, of course) as its diurnal sister-if somewhat fewer of them-and all written in similarly breathless prose (Jacqueline Onassis is "mystique mingled with mystery-maybe even sorcery"). About the only thing that W does not pick up from WWD is the daily's daily hamper of garment-industry news, though W does cover the nontrade side of fashion like a Big Chemise. W's fast close (stories written as late as Wednesday are in readers' hands on Friday) allows it to show spring and fall fashions up to three months ahead of Vogue...
...Fatah, the largest Palestinian fedayeen group, claimed responsibility for the attack. That was something of a shock, since Fatah is headed by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who is regarded by many Arabs as a relatively moderate Palestinian leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...area, saying again that the only union the medical area employees could join would be a University wide one. A medical area organizing committee that has the support of most medical area clerical workers will file for a union forming election this months, and Harvard's opposition could severely hamper or even kill the group's unionizing effort...