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...Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example: an outlandish hotel on the outskirts of Rangoon), the Red Chinese have promised to build the Burmese a mill to make paper from bamboo, erected small textile and plywood plants in Cambodia...
Desperate for new grist for Alabama's busily churning football mill, Bryant and his ten assistants scoured a three-state area, staged coaching clinics, later even enlisted the assistance of Alabama's Governor John Patterson. With each young prospect Bryant's approach varied: sometimes he was fatherly and cajoling, sometimes he was tough and terse. To wavering Tackle Prospect Steve Wright. Bryant rasped: "Steve, we were considering you, but I think I've changed my mind. You don't have the guts to play for Alabama." Wright begged for a chance to sign. To compete...
...cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...
Alcoa Première (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dramatization of the everyday life of the average, run-of-the-mill astronaut...
...bank. A $15,000 spinning frame formerly charged off over 30 years at $500 a year will now be depreciated at $1,000 a year for 15 years. Hopefully, these increased tax savings will encourage textile men to buy such new machinery as a fully automated yarn mill now under development that cuts labor costs 40%. Textile men agree that the new write-offs will help mightily, but they are not fully satisfied yet. They vowed a further fight against the No. 1 problem-low-priced foreign imports-through a push for import controls...