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...into question. Yasir Arafat was bold enough to call on American Jews to abandon their support for the Jewish State of Israel. A dramatic turn about of this type is probably not in the offing, for if support for Israel among Jewish students at Harvard is no longer as outspoken and unquestioning as it once was, this community--with a few isolated but vocal exceptions--is likely to maintain at least an ambivalent response...
...feet. You Can Get There from Here is basically a comeback saga. In 1971. she stumbled badly in an inane and short-lived TV series called Shirley's World. In the role of a global journalist, MacLaine had hopes of playing herself: an openhearted, open-minded, outspoken female. The show's producers wanted a clever career gal who keeps her pantsuit on and plays mediating momma to her contentious male col leagues. The results were a disaster...
...Exchequer. Sir Keith blundered away his own chance for party leadership by delivering some ill-considered public remarks last fall about what he called the irresponsible breeding habits of Britain's lower classes (TIME, Nov. 11). More than Mrs. Thatcher, Sir Keith is a rigid monetarist and an outspoken critic of the welfare state, a position that the Labor Party has used to picture him as a defender of mass unemployment and social misery...
...became bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
Having been head of the firm that bears his name for 30 years, Henry Ford II is the senior man in the U.S. auto industry. He also has few rivals for outspoken candor. Other auto chiefs fairly shuddered last November when Ford warned that the industry was headed into "a depression" and called for a big tax on gasoline to finance aid to the jobless. In an interview with TIME'S Detroit bureau chief Edwin Reingold last week, Ford confessed amazement at the depth of uncertainty that he finds about the economic future, even in Detroit...