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...curious exchange, The Smugglers becomes almost a theological dialogue while October Light is steeped in melodrama. A trap set for Sally by James nearly kills her peacemaking niece. James almost kills himself in his pickup truck while returning from Merton's Hideaway, full of rage and beer. Retrospective suicides begin falling out of the family tree: James' mad Uncle Ira, James' tormented son Richard...
...Frank Laumer, a Florida entrepreneur, such love (and money) spell opportunity. He knows the Model A inside out, having owned 13 himself and restored numerous others in his mechanic's shop. So he has decided to build brand-new Model A's (the 1930 roadster, coupe and pickup truck) to the original specifications in his barn outside Dade City. A smooth-riding demonstration car stands in the driveway as proof of production. List price...
...breaks last week. While gardening on her Beverly Hills estate, Actress Katharine Hepburn stepped into a hole and fractured her ankle in three places. After missing three performances of A Matter of Gravity in Los Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion...
...Carter has considered all three options, but most notably a tax cut, if the economy does not improve by the time he takes office. While his mind is open to a possible tax cut later, Burns told a congressional committee that such action appears unnecessary since he expects "a pickup in the tempo of economic activity in the near future" and any of the alternatives might well increase inflation...
...figures stirred some bipartisan worry among members of TIME'S Board of Economists. Republican Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University now believes economic expansion in the final three months of the year will be relatively slow, though he expects a strong pickup next year. Democrat Otto Eckstein of Harvard foresees a fourth-quarter growth rate no higher than 3.7%, and possibly as low as 2%, v. the third quarter's already disappointing 4%. As a result, Eckstein believes that the economy will need the stimulus of a new tax cut early...