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...Warren has done just that. A veteran of Broadway and such television series as Mission: Impossible, Warren is aiming for bigger fame in a "hot, sexy" song-and-dance act that opens this week in Los Angeles. Streisand has been bolstering Warren's courage with almost daily pep talks ("Get out on that stage, take a deep breath and do what you believe"), while Peters has been giving advice on such things as publicity and lighting. How come Leslie knows the good Samaritans? She was married to former hairdresser Jon until he took a shine to superstar Barbra...
...size and type of stimulus to be applied is that he cannot look at U.S. business in isolation. The economies of Europe and Japan are slowing down too, and their leaders are fearful of applying stimulus because of persistent inflation. World economists are looking to the Carter Administration to pep up the U.S. economy and persuade other countries, notably Japan and Germany, to pursue more expansionary policies...
...Hite Report stands as a polemic and a pep talk. See, she's telling all her readers, most women are absolutely normal when they fall short of the avidity that Playboy and Penthouse magazines try to fob off on them. Women can overcome their sexual dependencies--the last stronghold of a male-dominated society--only if they make demands, and both men and women will be better off when that happens...
...drive to pep up the dawdling U.S. economy, Jimmy Carter will face at least two major challenges: prompting more investment by edgy businessmen and forging a working relationship with Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board, which controls the nation's credit. Last week Carter's prospects for doing both brightened measurably. After an hour-long meeting in Washington with Burns, the President-elect reported that the chairman found his economic goals for 1977 "reasonable." Those goals are a 6% rise in real output, v. 3.8% in this year's third quarter...
...adjusted for inflation-rose only 3.8% in the third quarter, rather than 4% as was first estimated. Industrial production fell .5% in October, the second straight monthly decline, and housing starts also dipped. Carter in January is likely to propose a $10 billion to $15 billion tax cut to pep up demand; his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein, has said that the country may need an annual growth rate of 7% to reduce unemployment significantly...