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...found out we were dealing with a very serious government, bent on a settlement," Gazit says. But he is quick to point out the lighter side of the difficulties. "The negotiations were in September and between the Moslem Sabbath on Fridays, and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur falling on Sundays and Mondays that year, it made for amusing negotiations and necessitated and two consecutive 24-hour sessions," he says...
...York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three things: (1) it always showed you other people's living rooms...(2) it always showed you where other people's libidos were plugged...
High fuel costs are also spurring the return of lighter-than-air dirigibles. The British firm Airship Industries is developing a 600-ft. freight-carrying airship. Unlike the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg, whose 1937 explosion at Lakehurst, N.J., doomed airship travel, the new dirigibles will be filled with inert, nonflammable helium rather than potentially dangerous hydrogen. Britain's Redcoat Cargo Airlines will take delivery of four of the $9.5 million skyships beginning in 1984. The airline claims that they will cost slightly less to operate than a jumbo jet and have 56% more cargo space. The airships, which will...
Harlan (Dennis Lipscomb) thinks he's Bogie: swatting his cigarette lighter open, swigging Seagram's from a pint bottle, talking tough to the little lady. He's not. He's a middle-aged shlemiel of an accountant-a surly, sulky Bob Newhart-with a restless young wife and a fatal case of paranoia. Lillian (Deborah Harry) thinks she's Betty Bacall: purple nightgowns, lots of makeup and suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment...
...days in the regular court system. One reason is the policy of assigning a prosecutor to each case for its duration instead of having it passed from one to another at various stages. Some programs, like Chicago's, act more quickly because the judges' case loads are lighter. Also important is their refusal to abide delays. Judge Thomas Fitzgerald, the third member of the Rock's troika, says he tries to limit continuances to 30 days, while judges elsewhere often allow 45 or 50 days...