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...delighted to read your article about the Lebanese Christians and their ties with the Western world [WORLD, March 5]. As a Jordanian, I am proud to be called an Arab. My Lebanese friends deny they are Arabs. They insist they are still Phoenicians...
Meese's intimates insist he was careless, not venal. "He was trying to live up to the Joneses, and the Joneses felt sorry for him," says one, referring to the loans Meese got from friends. Even so, Meese's dream of being Attorney General is clearly on hold. "I see a hurt in his eyes," says his old friend Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. "He seems bewildered. He can't understand how this could happen...
...punctuate their broody adolescent walks with leaps onto fast-moving freight trains, for Hopper to fall in love with Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern) and for Nicky to get his girl friend Sally (Suzanne Adkinson) "in trouble." These characters, and their problems, are the basic banalities of books and movies that insist on taking adolescence as seriously as adolescents do. Director Benjamin has found some picturesque locations, so his picture looks nice; the period details are no more than usually selfconscious, and the actors are all agreeable. But the film's soft false nostalgia is no substitute for liveliness of spirit...
...still lacks the kind of great innovators who set up the original American system. Harvard's Skinner says that many manufacturers are "housekeepers but not yet architects." More strategic thinking, more top talent and more development, he says, are needed. Detroit auto executives take exception to that. They insist they are no longer second to Japanese manufacturing in any way. "There is no manufacturing gap," says Ford President Donald Petersen. Echoes GM President F James McDonald: "There are no differences in the process. Most of the technology everyone uses was developed here...
Producers insist that the sound-track boom has not marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn...