Word: neighborly
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...score, are pulling out. RCA sold Random House; CBS jettisoned Fawcett Books; textbook giant Scott, Foresman abandoned William Morrow. And the film studios, whose pictures often earned outsize profits for paperback tie-in editions, are equally cautious. A seven-figure property like Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife has yet to make it to the screen. Currently, the odds are against its ever getting to a sound stage. Says Willie Hunt, vice president of production at United Artists, "Everybody's trying to figure out what the 15-to 25-year-olds are going...
...looked more like the return of a victorious national hero than the arrival of a troubled neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...friends wanted to express an even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
Donald N. Carlisle, a neighbor of Lobig, said yesterday the he heard a "large noise," coming from Lobig's room somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m. yesterday. Carlisle said he did not investigate the noise because it subsided quickly...
...parallels to Viet Nam are far outnumbered by the divergences. Viet Nam is 9,000 miles from the U.S.; El Salvador is a near neighbor. The military-civilian government in San Salvador is its own worst enemy, in the sense that it has alienated its own people and embarrassed what few friends it has left in the world. Still, the junta bears little resemblance to the assorted cliques and strongmen that the U.S. supported in Saigon...