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...roots. "Climbing All Over the Family Trees," this week's Essay by Senior Writer Stefan Kanfer, tells some of the reasons why. "White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa" in the Living section tells how to do it-with specific instructions for the beginner. Its author, Senior Writer Michael Demarest, believes passionately in what he calls the "joy of genealogy." But then, to trace the 14 generations of his American ancestry, he has only to drop by the New York Public Library to read two volumes on The Demarest Family, a project first published in 1938 and financed in part...
...Michael J. Jiminez, assistant senior tutor of North House and coordinator of North House housing, said yesterday that "while we regret the passage of the Fox plan, we're trying to make North House an attractive place to live...
...Golden Door, a chic fat farm in Escondido, Calif., Chef Michel Stroot wondered what he would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange...
Jimmy Carter is anxious to avoid that blind spot in his Administration. One of his first acts was to dispatch Vice President Walter Mondale to discuss economic issues with U.S. allies. He has also surrounded himself with economic advisers noted for international expertise (Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper, Assistant Treasury Secretary Fred Bergsten). As further evidence of his commitment to international economic cooperation, Carter last week announced that his first presidential trip abroad will be to attend a seven-nation* economic summit scheduled for May 7-8 in London...
...plot concerns Thomas Hudson (Scott), a famous sculptor, twice divorced, living in the Bahamas in 1940. Insofar as Hudson's story is a love story, it refreshingly focuses on his love for his three sons by both marriages (Hart Bochner, Michael-James Wixted, Brad Savage). During a long visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly...