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...Dowd, who joined TIME's staff last September from the Washington Star, and who was working on her first cover story, found the subject beguiling and familiar. She grew up in Washington with five cats who produced 25 kittens. Though she proposed such dignified names as Princess and Napoleon for the kittens, her older brothers and sister insisted on calling all of them J. Fred Muggs, after NBC's famous chimpanzee. Sums up Dowd: "After years of covering public officials, I found cats a pleasant relief. Cats are every bit as narcissistic as politicians, but, happily, they...
...hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. After Volume V came Will's announcement, at 69, that "the imminence of senility" would bring the work to an end with Volume VII. But it was only at age 90, after Volume XI-The Age of Napoleon-that Durant retired. "The ego is willing," he said, "but the machine cannot...
...Wheel. But his success ended with the advent of talkies. Shuttling between unemployment and obscure commercial movies, he complained: "I prostituted myself not to live but to avoid dying." Five decades later, one understanding producer, Francis Coppola, helped English Film Historian Kevin Brownlow present a reassembled copy of Napoleon, shown last January in New York City. The revival of the epic gave Gance the acclaim that had long eluded him. But the master film maker, though grateful, was still bitter, lamenting, "The bravos come too late...
...Secretary also reopened an old disagreement with the Pentagon over the proper U.S. role in El Salvador. Haig wants increased U.S. military aid to the government of José Napoleon Duarte, which is stalemated in its war against leftist insurgents. The Secretary indicated that he was considering military steps, perhaps including naval action, to halt the flow of arms to the rebels from Cuba and Nicaragua. In what several Administration officials call ''an inversion of roles," Weinberger and his Pentagon aides have opposed Haig's State Department on that question, arguing that U.S. military involvement...
Also REAGAN over CARTER, the DODGERS over the YANKS, and BUFFALO over the spread. Plus, THE SPACE SHUTTLE conquers THE ELEMENTS, RUSSIA turns back NAPOLEON and the METS win the '69 series. And, WAYNE MEISEL, PAUL-ALEXANDER, RICH YU and MARIO TEIXEIRA will win Harvard class marshal elections...