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Havana on the eve of revolution: Batista's people clinging to their corrupt ways; Castro's men closing in on the cap ital; and Sean Connery, as a soldier of fortune, flying in to try to help the govern ment turn the tide. Sounds lively...
Flying from state capital to state cap ital, the savvy, disarming Schlafly matches the feminists' rhetoric phrase for phrase. She bluntly proclaims that "all sensible people are against ERA," and dismisses the liberationists as "a bunch of bitter women seeking a constitutional cure for their personal problems." In many of her speeches, she continues to insist that "women find their greatest fulfillment at home with their family...
...perhaps much longer. Texas Attorney General John Hill predicted that it would be at least two years before all the appeals are completed and the first execution could happen in his state. Like many in the U.S., Texas death row prisoners had seemed almost not to believe that cap ital punishment would really return. With last week's final Supreme Court decision, reality has begun to sink in. The long-expected individual appeals will now start inundating Hill's office...
...Pinin Farina and Nuncio Bertone is a prodigious creator named Giorgietto Giugiaro, the son of a church gilder. Giugiaro went to work for Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens, Ghia's classic De Tomaso Mangusta, the Fiat 850 Spider and a new South Korean...
...Giugiaro's modern new plant in Moncalieri near Turin, 150 staffers design not only cars but also whole automotive plants, one more sign that designers increasingly think in aggregate rather than discrete terms. For the new South Korean car, Ital Design technicians prepared plans for an assembly line, machinery, tools and parts down to nuts and bolts, complete with precise calculations of the cost. Explaining this fascination with integrating design and production, Giugiaro says, "By the time I visualize the lines of a car door, say, I already know what it will cost to manufacture in terms...