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...gets too thick. But since his story includes, among other misadventures, a one-night stand for each of his protagonists, an unwanted pregnancy and consequent flirtation with abortion, not to mention such urban delights as an attempted mugging, sudden death in the indifferent streets and a racist cab driver (Irwin Corey, working hard) whom Gardner tries desperately to make us see as a wise fool, the author has his work cut out for him. The smell of damp garbage never quite leaves this enterprise...
...many economists now regard replacement-cost accounting as a simple matter of the bookkeepers' finally catching up with reality. Irwin Kellner of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. cites the "salutary effects" of replacement-cost accounting. If it reduces high taxes on inflation-bloated corporate profits, it frees funds for badly needed capital investment. And in a time of high inflation, he adds, ordinary depreciation "is much too little to replace plants. It's like a camel trying to live off its hump-O.K. for a while, but eventually starvation...
...Viking emerged from its conjunction with the sun, a team headed by Physicist Irwin Shapiro of Massachusetts Institute of Technology measured the time it took for radio signals to make the round trip between the earth and the Viking orbiters, 400 million kilometers (248.5 million miles) away. The scientists were making the most accurate tests yet of one of the tenets of Einstein's theory of relativity, which holds that radio waves passing close to a massive body like the sun should be slowed down by its gravitational field. The signals to and from the Viking orbiters have further...
...other end of the spectrum, Irwin Silber, editor of the newspaper Guardian, will speak on "What Now for the U.S. Left" this Sunday at 11 a.m. at B.U.'s Morse Auditorium at 602 Commonwealth...
...novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache and his black-sheep brother eventually collected 23 Emmy nominations and helped boost ABC past its network rivals...