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Because the debates among IMF members are necessarily secret, a strange mystique has settled around the Fund. The curious personality of Witteveen-part hard-nosed banker, part mystic (see box) -has only added to the organization's enigmatic reputation. The mystique is undeserved, since the delegates are as subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: The Lender of Last Resort | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Driving, Couture suggests, should ultimately become a system of controlled reflexes. Developing the reflexes is "not a matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Gentlemen, Your Brakes | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

These characters and their struggle to emerge intact from their '60s idealism, are the focus of the film, for the plot which frames that struggle is pure cliche. The big, bad conglomerate is just too predictably bull-headed, so intent on lancing any threats to its authority that journalistic quality...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Between Lives | 6/3/1977 | See Source »

From the start, Carlo had a tough time adjusting to what struck him as a strangely proletarian Harvard. Not that he had no sympathy for the working class--Carlo's father was an electrician who worked for the union and made good money, but not good enough that he could...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A real special place | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

VERNON JORDAN, executive director of the National Urban League. My view of Carter in January-shared by most black people-was hopeful. Today, my opinion of him is high. He has established a definite profile for his Administration; he has introduced important new approaches such as concern for human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Verdict Thus Far | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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