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...Mesa, Ariz., not because he is interested in "all this psychic stuff' but because "I want to improve myself in my hobby-treasure hunting." A splendidly coiffed blond commodities broker from New York City allows that dowsing helps her cope with, if not actually predict, a fickle market. Ira Denbar, a young mailorder and advertising man from Providence, is trying to shake off the painful effects of a divorce. "Dowsing helps me keep my head together," he says. "It plugs me in to the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...pretty silly stuff, but the chief peculiarity of this film, based on Ira Levin's bestseller, is the expensive sobriety with which it has been mounted. Director Schaffner seems determined to overwhelm our disbelief with production values-a strategy that frequently threatens to succeed. To begin with, there is the fascination of watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cloning Around | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Ira Einhorn, executive director of the Philadelphia Sun Day Committee and a social activist, said that although protest movements of the sixties, which he helped lead, had failed to seize political power, they succeeded in convincing people that change is necessary...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Six Institute of Politics Fellows Trade Tales Of Successes and Failures In Political Life | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...Ira Landess, 38, a psychotherapist, and his wife, Marcia McBroom, 28, an actress and model, live in Manhattan and between them earn $80,000. But, Ira contends, they are still struggling to keep their heads above water. Says he: "We have no exorbitant expenses, but it is not easy to save." Perhaps so, but they rent a two-bedroom penthouse at $616 a month, take lots of taxis, go on frequent overseas vacations, eat in gourmet restaurants and have a housekeeper who helps look after their baby. Ira believes that "you can make do with one income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's New Elite | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Race preparation affected both squads. Previously unscathed Yale threw the crew rankings askew by suffering its first loss of the season to an unheralded Dartmouth squad: Johnson promptly held his crew out of the IRA championships at Syracuse in order to devote full time to preparations for the Harvard race...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Heavyweights Salvage Season | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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