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...powerful documentary shown last week on British television. The "case" began in March 1976 when Sussex police learned that Yolande McShane, 60, the wife of an artist, was urging her 87-year-old mother, Mrs. Edith Mott, to commit suicide. The daughter was deeply in debt and stood to inherit $70,000 upon her mother's death...
Improvement still seems distant. Under Mrs. Gandhi, Indian industry was mired in deep recession-largely because of impenetrable tangles of red tape. Desai's government did, however, inherit over $4 billion in foreign reserves and record wheat stockpiles. But the Janata regime is hamstrung by internal wrangling. Squabbles over patronage have left many ministerial posts vacant. "I have no time for policymaking because I have no help," moans a minister. One result is that Desai's first budget virtually duplicates that of the former Congress government. Inflation (now 2% a month) and shortages of key commodities (edible...
Born. To Sweden's Queen Silvia, 33, commoner daughter of a West German businessman, and King Carl XVI Gustaf, 31: their first child, a daughter; in Stockholm. Name: Victoria. The first child born to a reigning Swedish king and queen in 178 years, Victoria can inherit the crown only if Sweden's constitution is revised to allow a female to become monarch...
...killed in an air crash seven years ago. Once a metal finisher in a De Soto plant, Fraser became a boy-wonder local president and was Reuther's administrative assistant for most of the 1950s. As a union vice president in 1970, he seemed a likely choice to inherit "the Redhead's" post, but lost out when the union's executive board recommended Woodcock by one vote. More gregarious than Woodcock, a punchier speaker, a hair more liberal, Fraser signals a change in style rather than substance...
Afterward Veeck explained, "You have to start with what you inherit, and then you scuffle and upgrade. Develop attitudes. We began that last year. As a general rule, you have three seasons to succeed. If you don't win in three, the fans just want you to go away. This is not a classic team, but it will surprise some people...