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...almost anyone in the Louisville audience. Walters knew this, and perhaps it was inevitable that she would try to leave her own distinctive stamp on the proceedings. But she chose to make her pitch at the very beginning of the debate, when viewer attention was (hopefully) at its peak. With straight-faced regret she indicated the three journalists on the panel, and told America there should have been four. Why weren't there, Barbara? Because out of the 112 names submitted by the sponsor of the debate, the League of Women Voters, to the two campaigns, they could agree only...
...game, and its old conquests good only for colorful but dispassionate reminiscing. His servant Gaston, his name seemingly synonymous with the command "service" and too often, invoked with the same sensitivity, knows love only from the Baron's recounts and, as he laments, "from an occasional peak through the keyhole every year...
DIED. Walter Pidgeon, 87, urbane, courtly actor for half a century in Hollywood who dignified more than 100 films, most often as a reassuring and formidable gentleman; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born in Canada, Pidgeon reached his peak of popularity during the 1940s and '50s when he teamed with Greer Garson for eight films, most notably Mrs. Miniver, in which he movingly portrayed the staunch father of an English family whose lives are rent by World...
...coincidence those plants turn out nearly half of GM's total production, including such hot-selling models as the Pontiac Fiero and Buick Century. But as the selective strike continued last week, more and more workers began to feel the impact of the partial walkout. At its peak, the strike affected 40 plants and 110,000 workers, one-third of GM's blue-collar work force...
...Reserve to push up interest rates to keep growth under control. The clearest sign of U.S. economic might has been the continuing strength of the American dollar abroad. Last week it hit alltime highs against the British pound and the French franc and climbed to an 11½-year peak against the West German mark. The British pound was worth more than $2.30 in 1980 and about $1.50 a year ago, but now fetches barely $1.25. Late the week the West German Bundesbank bought several hundred million dollars' worth of marks in an effort to shore up the value...