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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in full voice but visibly fatigued from the dual responsibilities of being head of government and a candidate on the hustings, welcomed Correspondents Kelly and Halevy to his Jerusalem office and talked at length about his government's prospects. Excerpts...
Western Europe's biggest Communist party (1.7 million members) thus served notice that it would continue to hew to Berlinguer's "Eurocommunist" line, polishing its democratic image and keeping Moscow at arm's length. Natta has supported Berlinguer's advocacy of what is known as the "historic compromise," the idea of a coalition government between Communists and Christian Democrats. He is considered practical rather than creative, professorial rather than charismatic. In opting for Natta the party passed up a number of candidates with a popular following, each of whom would have given his own stamp...
...distressing horse melodrama mysterious enough for Dick Francis, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winner Swale collapsed suddenly last week. Just eight days after his emphatic four-length victory at Belmont-the 1½-mile test of three-year-old champions-Swale returned from an ordinary gallop, reared up, tumbled over and died...
...whole world has not been waiting for an answer, to be sure, but here it is anyhow. Seven years in the making (the same length of time it took Joyce to write the book), this new edition of Ulysses has been painstakingly reconstructed, with the aid of a computer, from all of the surviving documents of composition. It rectifies some 5,000 gaffes in previous publications of the novel...
...John Huston while at work on the script of The African Queen. It was too late for a prince of excess to slow down. He went on spinning out great ideas for the future, as he always had. At one time, a partial list of projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short roughly equivalent to the lyric poem," and some "pieces of writing whose...