Word: jr
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Field's performance however derives much of its power from the screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.--it's hokey as hell but it plays. Motivated by a magazine article by Henry F. Leifermann, the screenplay delineates the growing bond between Norma Rae, a hard-assed little cracker and Reuben (Ron Leibman) a New York Jewish labor organizer who comes down to unionize her factory. Refreshingly, their bond stems not from wild, trans-ethnic couplings but from a shared philosophy towards life. Ravetch and Frank use humor, wit and most of all, respect in their screenplay...
Michael Ivanchak Jr...
...story of some 5,000 words, with the working title "The H-Bomb Secret," was due to appear in the Progressive (circ. 40,000), a left-wing monthly published in Madison, Wis. Two weeks ago, Managing Editor Samuel H. Day Jr. sent a copy to the Department of Energy in Washington and asked for verification of the facts. The article was quickly passed from DOE'S technical experts to its legal staff. "The reaction was pretty amazing and swift," recalls a DOE official. The department informed the Progressive that publication of the material would be "contrary to the United...
Such tactics have caused oil executives to mutter about drawing up a blacklist of their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...
...England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care for his or her family...