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Some of our authors chose to write about characters in real life. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich is working on a biography of Clover Adams, wife of the historian Henry Adams. For his forthcoming book on Truman Capote, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke conducted 200 interviews with his subject's friends and foes. Two staffers have written biographies drawn upon their reporting experience at TIME. Correspondent Bernard Diederich's Death of the Goat, due this spring, is about Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Jerusalem Stringer Robert Slater has written a biography of Yitzhak Rabin, the former Israeli Premier. Says Slater...
Some outside economists doubt that the Government's calculations are right even now. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, questions whether the December jobless rate was really only 6.4% and believes it was "physically impossible" for 1.3 million new jobs to be created in November and December, which is what the Administration says happened. But even Eckstein concedes that unemployment is indeed coming down, and President Carter naturally hailed the news with delight. He cautioned, though, that the nation still needs the tax cut of $25 billion a year that he will propose...
There was disagreement over the quality of Carter's economic policy. Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said yesterday Carter moved the economy in the right direction. Whether it was "luck or skill is irrelevant; it is only important that the economy did well," Eckstein added...
...production is the work of two Austrians, Stage Director Otto Schenk and Set Designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen. Schenk treated the story simply and with his designer's help has placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannhäuser is expelled is both swift and wizardry...
...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...