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Black and White. Given these constraints, Director Edwin Sherin (The Great White Hope) has worked something of a miracle. His cast might be a repertory group. Performers work at peak level; if Stefan Gierasch is to be singled out for excellence, it is not because he is better but because his crippled old ranch hand is written as operatic bathos and yet is played with unfailing dignity...
...Unemployment will rise from the present 6.5% of the labor force to a peak of somewhere between 7% and 8%, and will average more than 7% for the whole year-the highest full-year average since...
...reflect the full impact of the coal strike nor the most recent, and continuing, wave of layoffs in auto, appliance and other industries. There is a likelihood that the jobless rate will hit 7% even before the end of 1974, and that it will continue climbing to a peak that members of the Board of Economists estimate at anywhere from 7½% to 8% or even 8¼% (the postwar high was 7.9% during the 1948-49 recession). Moreover, that peak will be reached late in 1975; just as employers are reluctant to lay off workers in the early stages...
...Soviet Union and China would inevitably dominate their "orbits" as the U.S. did its own. This view is now grudgingly echoed in U.S. foreign policy, but Lippmann's refusal to give weight to the explosive emotions of the cold war drew much criticism when tensions were at their peak. His writing style was elegant and correct to the last comma, but his artful convolutions sometimes trapped readers between unresolved propositions. Press Critic A.J. Liebling once called Lippmann "perhaps the greatest on-the-one-hand-this writer in the world today...
...GOLDEN CLAWS; KING OTTOKAR'S SCEPTRE. All written and illustrated by Hergé. All 62 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. Paperback $1.95 each. No one should be put off by Tintin himself, a boy in knickers with a muffin face and a tuft of hair rising to a curled peak like a Hokusai wave. Or by Captain Haddock, his bearded rum-sodden sidekick. Or by the small white dog, known as Milou in the original French versions of these stories, but for some inexplicable reason called Snowy in English...