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Opposition to some of the development programs, though, began to surface last month, when Vickery and his staff took their plans for turning Alewife into a bustling office and light-manufacturing complex to the city council. Although neatly packaged and backed by a phalanx of silver-haired businessmen, the "revitalization" program met a quick, though probably temporary, rebuff. The council tabled the petition, instructing the planners to sit down with the councilors to discuss ways of modifying the plans...
...organized a pro-government rally at a soccer stadium. Carrying Khomeini posters, some 4,000 people-hardly a crowd by Iranian standards-gathered in the middle of the field. Suddenly, they were charged by some 2,000 Azerbaijanis waving Sharietmadari posters and chanting "Down with Bani-sadr!" Gradually, a phalanx of Khomeini supporters drove the Sharietmadari forces out of the stadium...
...shoot you. The refinements are satanic. The player has four blockhouses behind which to hide his man, but as the blockhouses catch fire under attack, they crumble. As the sound effects become more ominous, the aliens begin to shoot faster and more accurately. Blast them all -whew!-and another phalanx appears, nearer and more menacing. The action is jitteringly fast, and the tension is worsened by a sense of foreboding: as in life itself, there can be only one end to the struggle. At last the heroic player dies, overwhelmed. He is limp, drained, defeated, and his only satisfaction...
...great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy can be seen in the antic portraits of hogs and frogs and owls. The result is a rare pictorial biograph that shuttles between serious analysis and pure nonsense...
Early this week United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser leads a phalanx of union representatives into the orange-carpeted fifth-floor conference room at General Motors headquarters in Detroit to open triennial contract negotiations with the Big Three automakers. The outcome of the most important labor negotiation of the year will significantly affect inflation and wage rates in other industries. Much will depend on Fraser, who is making his debut as chief negotiator for the 1.5-million-member union that he has headed since 1977. TIME Detroit Correspondent Michael Moritz analyzes the man whom the auto chiefs will confront...