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...kind of thing about him that says to them, I don't hate you. I'm not aloof from you.' But there is suspicion. People are just waiting to see-is this a pattern? If it is, he could lose them overnight...
...sleeper test. "But if Bitsy is a good-looking woman," he says, "I wouldn't be surprised if some drivers didn't try to use it." To lessen chances for sexual harassment on the road, the coalition is demanding separate rooms for male and female drivers on overnight stops, and relay driving (with just one driver on each stretch of the run). The coalition's other demands: on-the-job training for women; no special tests for drivers already licensed in their categories by the state (women truckers charge that the tests are used to weed...
...phrases, "ethnic purity," particularly offended many blacks and whites. The episode had overnight become the cause celebre of the campaign and sent the Carter camp reeling. Was this one of those fatal slips that can destroy a candidate? For the first time in what had been a near faultless campaign to reach the White House, the candidate had stumbled badly. He had confidently fielded highly complex issues, from abortion to defense spending, yet he ignited a brushfire over race-just as white liberals were beginning to swing behind him and his broad support among blacks was being widely noted (TIME...
...child in Los Angeles, Hoffman studied to be a concert pianist but dropped the idea fast when he discovered the fun of acting classes. It is nearly a decade since he became an overnight star in The Graduate; he now gets $750,000 a picture. He and his wife, Ballet Dancer Anne Byrne, live in New York City. Says he: "If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes." He is extravagantly proud of his wife, who stopped dancing to have two children, but who is now "making a comeback second only to Muhammad Ali." He concludes...
This may be the last year there are two TV seasons; the trend is toward a continuous, revolving-door policy. By last fall network programmers were using an overnight rating system effectively enough to kill new shows like...