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...Paris Vu Par, with a Chaplin short, Sunday...
Affirmative Action. The party left wanted a system of specific quotas, as in 1972; the party right - notably the AFL-CIO - desired no hint of quotas that might dilute its traditional power in par ty affairs. Going into Kansas City, Strauss had managed to get both sides to agree to a compromise that had been worked out by a commission headed by Mikulski in drawing up the 1976 rules...
...simple down-home country boy with a fifth-grade education. Yet when Oil Titan H.L. (for Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt died of an undisclosed illness hi a Dallas hospital last week at the age of 85, he had amassed an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion, putting him on a par with J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes as one of the world's richest men. The exact extent of his wealth is unknown because Hunt never invested hi anything that he could not own outright, and he had no outside stockholders in the businesses he did control. Claiming...
...felt there was one point which wasn't made throughout the whole controversy. While the racism of the movie was something of a phenomenon, the incredible sexism was simply par for the course! If we attempted to put into context every film which contained such disgusting and degrading stereotypes of women, the film societies would just have to start making their own movies...
...east there was the sandstone Parliament building, its doors still shuttered after seven years of dictatorial rule. To the south there was the stately Acropolis, a more distant symbol of the contest to be waged. During the last three nights of the campaign, the leading political par ties came to Syntagma Square to stage their final rallies and make their last pitch to the voters - as stirring a symbol of Greece's return to democracy as the election itself. TIME'S Dean Brelis attended the rallies and sent this report...