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Detroit, especially, is anticipating the early departure of Nader Disciple Joan Claybrook as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where she pushed hard for the air bags and tighter fuel-efficiency standards for trucks and vans that caused auto-industry headaches. Yale Professor Merton Peck, a Johnson Administration adviser, expects to see increased deregulation of small businesses where, he says, enforcement of rules is erratic and costly, and benefits to employees and consumers are marginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Waiting for Reaganomics | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Maggi-Meg Reed superbly plays the wisecracking chorus girl who takes Ruby under her wing (a resemblance to Joan Blondell certainly helps). The chorus-girl's argumentative romance with yet another sailor (Frank Pastor) makes Ruby's saccharine affair a little less cloying. Although conducted in a duet which dreamily imitates the worst of Cole Porter, Mona Kent's seduction of the wealthy Captain injects some welcome opportunism into an otherwise hopelessly unworldly world. Goodness prevails, but, gratifyingly, even the selfish end up happy in Dames...

Author: By Katherine Ashton, | Title: A Chance In A Million | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

...game opened with an immediate, if somewhat sluggish Harvard press deep into the Yale zone. Before the Elis gained control of the ball, Crimson co-captain Sue St. Louis, playing her last game in a Harvard uniform, placed a perfect crossing pass in front of freshman striker Joan Elliott, who directed the ball into the net and sent Yale goalie Angie Harris sprawling...

Author: By Mike Bass and Danny Benjamin, S | Title: Women Booters Trip Elis, 2-0 | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

North Carolina picked up the pace and at the 30-minute mark, one of their forwards streaked through the Harvard defense, and beat Judge one-on-one on an excellent shot. But the Crimson bounced back again, as Ferrante slid a pass to freshman back striker Joan Elliott, who promptly put it in the net at 43:12 for a 2-all halftime...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Women Booters Capture Third Place at Nationals | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many more revelers: Joan Mondale, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Walter Cronkite, Zubin Mehta, Lady Bird Johnson, Sarah Caldwell, Burt Reynolds et several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Glorious, Bubbly Finale | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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