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...leading contender is City Controller Abe Beame, 67, a reliable if unexciting party wheelhorse. A fiscal conservative who is described by a state legislator as a "1950s liberal," Beame recalls for many New Yorkers a happier, more secure era. Competing with Beame for the moderate-to-conservative vote is Mario Biaggi, 55, a flamboyant, three-term Congressman who is the most decorated policeman in the city's history...
Computers had taken over in many other fields. When one went for a medical checkup, for example, one was closely questioned by one of these monsters. Hypochondriacs were having a hard time, because the wretched thing was both accurate and ruthless. Then there was the computer at Mario's school. (Mario was his younger brother.) It had replaced the old order several years ago. Computers, it was argued, were far better at teaching mathematics, physics and foreign languages than people-and, of course, they lasted longer...
...hero with unconscious levity as "that ghoulish baron on my father's side"-is a long-dead nobleman brought back to life by some frivolous incantations. His visage is ghastly to behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance; Mario Bava likes to bring on the Iron...
...population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing very new in the didactic methods," explains Economist Mario Henrique Simonsen, head of Mobral. "The structure had to be simple, and it had to be cheap. We had to use the available assets in the municipalities. Additionally, the average Mobral teacher makes only about $15 a month." To see how the program works, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited several schools and filed...
PROBABLY THE MAIN contenders for the "second toughest job in America" are Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi and Comptroller Abe Beame. The Democratic organization in the city would like to recycle Beame, who lost narrowly to Lindsay in 1965, but there are real questions whether the diminutive 5'2" Beame can hold the Jewish vote. As Bronx Democratic leader Pat Cunningham told a Harvard professor last week. "Let's face it. Beame's big problem is that he's mediocre...