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Consumer activists are pursuing another avenue of recourse besides the courts. Adam Levin, director of the New Jersey commission on consumer affairs, says that "the limelight has shifted from the Federal Government to the states." His state, which has 78 local consumer agencies, is among the most consumer-oriented, and the legislature has recently passed a bill limiting excessive medical fees. In New York, state funds were used to replace those cut from the federal Energy Department budget that pay for consumer advocates at utility hearings. The Wisconsin legislature set up a private citizen's utility board to protect...
...storefront chain, Legal Service Center of Arkans & Levin, found a way to cover a wide territory with one movable office: Partners Peter Levin and Steven Arkans put the essentials inside a 22-ft. converted mobile home, painted their phone number (LEGAL 44) on the sides and launched it on a circuit of some 20 shopping centers...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...
...high-technology weapons to "fight outnumbered and win," as the Army's official field manual puts it. Still, the reformers have caught the ear of an influential group of legislators: Cohen, Hatfield and Alaska's Ted Stevens among the Senate's controlling Republicans; Hart, Nunn and Michigan's Carl Levin among Democratic Senators; Republicans Jack Edwards of Alabama, Newton Gingrich of Georgia and New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo in the House. By immersing themselves in the technical arcana of defense arguments, they have won the respectful attention of their colleagues...
DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...