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Illusion of Paradise. Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, waited until a more conventional age, 53, to publish his first book, a collection of essays on a wide range of topics that he has written over the years for his paper. Consequently, Royster is more reconciled to the aberrations of New York than Willie Morris, and gives some good advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman...
...difficult to find. One Kentucky Republican who has given Nunn tepid support complains: "They're either against Nunn because of something he said against Catholics or Jews in the primary, or they're against Ward because they don't like Breathitt or Johnson." The Louisville Courier-Journal endorsed Ward, but faulted him for me-tooing Nunn's positions opposing a state open-housing law and new taxes. The question next week for many Kentuckians will be whether to vote...
...writes a thrice-weekly column, "On the Right," that is carried by 205 papers. If an editor decides he needs a conservative for proper balance on the editorial page, he turns to Buckley. "He makes other conservative columnists look like guys with grey hair and dandruff," says Atlanta Journal Editor Jack Spalding. Buckley also publishes National Review, a fortnightly magazine of opinion (circ. 94,000) that manages to make conservative thought easy to read and even-at times-entertaining...
With almost all third-quarter earnings in, the summary was predictably subdued. The Wall Street Journal, in its periodic survey of profits, found that for 499 companies in such widely ranging activities as department stores and rubber making, profits were off 1.8% for the quarter; the New York Times found 475 companies up 1% for the quarter but down 3.6% for the first nine months of the year. The results were disappointing, but there was at least a silver lining. For the last quarter of the year and for next year as well, earnings are expected to rise again, thereby...