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Rhinoceros, intact, is a scathing fairy tale, a parable about how everyone in a large town turns into a rampaging herd of large, loud, one-horned beasts. The lone holdout is a slightly sodden dreamer called Stanley (Gene Wilder), who regrets his inability to metamorphose, but who finally comes to realize the tenuous value of individuality. Stanley is a reluctant combatant and the winner of a dubious victory. His final assertion ("I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end") is as much an assertion of uncertainty as defiance, a bolster...
While most of the country survived on short rations, the truckers seemed unusually well equipped for a lengthy holdout. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited a group of truckers camped near Santiago who were enjoying a lavish communal meal of steak, vegetables, wine and empanadas (meat pies). "Where does the money for that come from?" he inquired. "From the CIA," the truckers answered laughingly. In Washington, the CIA denied the allegation...
Wiggen (Michael Moriarty), realizing that a marginal player like Pearson (Robert de Niro) will be released if management gets wind of his illness, ends a spring-training holdout by accepting less money than he is worth-if the owners will agree not to cut Bruce. His efforts to keep Bruce's secret from shrewd Skipper Dutch Schnell (Vincent Gardenia), to get the rest of the club to quit ragging a man they don't know is dying, and to encourage Bruce to play above his half-empty head, form the substance of a funny, gentle and honestly sentimental...
...peak month of July, while the American lines adamantly held out for $299. Rather than risk a rate war when the current IATA agreement expires Saturday, British Airways and most other European lines, which also wanted low fares, agreed with the Americans on the present arrangement. The only holdout is Greece's Olympic Airways, but it is expected to yield. The "compromise" is likely to be costly to the scheduled airlines as well as to their customers. It seems sure to drive more passengers to the unscheduled airlines that run cut-rate charter flights for as little...
...raised their prime interest rates from 6% to 6%%. Burns sent telegrams demanding figures to support the increase. Within three days, officers of three of the banks-the Bank of New York, Manhattan's Franklin National Bank and Philadelphia's Girard Bank-changed their minds. The one holdout, perhaps temporarily, was Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust...