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...from Get Smart), Boris and Natasha (from Rocky and his Friends), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and this year's Car 54, Where Are You? But enough of these tele-visions will emulate the smash status of last year's The Fugitive or at least achieve the same modest earnings as The Beverly Hillbillies to give Hollywood what it wants most: a solid, safe return on its investment. Ask producer Alan Ladd Jr. about his low-budget (about $12 million) version of The Brady Bunch, and he will spell it out in numbers: "The risk factor isn't high...
Harvard may never realize the greatness since he is one of the most modest people I have met at this school. He would be the first to place the credit for the Council's great successes with anyone but himself...
WASHINGTON -- BILL and HILLARY CLINTON, normally slow to plan their summer vacations, are getting an early start this year. The Clintons are interested ; in returning to Martha's Vineyard, but this time they want a spread that is a bit more lavish than the modest digs provided last August by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The Secret Service has begun to do some advance checking on the island but hasn't yet found a suitable house. Apparently nobody who has a place large enough to suit the First Family wants to give it up and miss the chance to hobnob...
Just a short stroll from Nelson Mandela's modest country house in the Transkei is the even more humble village where he was born. The round thatched huts of Qunu have no running water or electricity, and shy herdboys wielding sticks tend the skinny cattle the same way young Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela did almost 70 years ago. Walking across the green hills above the village one morning not long ago, Mandela recalled a lesson he learned as a boy. "When you want to get a herd to move in a certain direction," he said, "you stand at the back with...
Trevor Manuel, the A.N.C.'s economic chief, asks the key question, "How much is all this going to cost?" White businessmen are likely to add, "And do you propose to pay for it by soaking the rich with big tax increases?" Manuel replies that the development program is relatively modest and can be financed at projected levels with a portion of the present government's budget. Further, he argues, some of it can be paid for by cracking down on corruption, cutting defense spending and collecting taxes more efficiently. "The kind of South Africa we can build," he says with...