Word: offbeaters
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...GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, conniving, bigoted old derelict...
...Yale's offbeat review (2,600 subscribers) claims to "begin where Harvard leaves off"-on the "frontier" of law and social policy. Scornful of big-name contributors, it once rejected an article by the dean of the Yale law school, seeks "adventurous" pieces by its own staff, such as a recent scathing study of Kennedy appointees to Southern federal courts. Last week the new issue probed anti-Semitism in big New York law firms, found them far more willing to hire Jews than a decade ago. (A remaining barrier: the "common knowledge" of Jews that they have no chance...
Everybody else was writing the Internal Revenue Service, too, but the U.S.'s top female folk singer sent the revenooers a slightly offbeat message. She started chummily enough. "Dear Friends," said the handwritten letter, "What I have to say is this: I do not believe in war. I do not believe in the weapons of war. I am not going to volunteer the 60% of my year's income tax that goes to armaments. I am no longer supporting my portion of the arms race. Sincerely yours-Joan C. Baez...
...like a rocket, Iacocca invited Grand Prix Driver Dan Gurney and other racing buffs in to give their opinions. Recalls Iacocca: "All the buffs said, 'What a car! It'll be the greatest car ever built.' But when I looked at the guys saying it-the offbeat crowd, the real buffs-I said, 'That's for sure not the car we want to build, because it can't be a volume car. It's too far out.' " Iacocca decided that he did not want a car to compete against foreign sports cars...
Heroes & Oddballs. The patriarch of the family was Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French Huguenot who liked to kick around offbeat economic and political schemes with his great friend Thomas Jefferson. At least one of his notions paid off. Pierre is credited with swinging Jefferson over to the idea of making the Louisiana Purchase, which turned out to be good for business as well as the country...