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...dreamers at the 35th Cannes Film Festival. For 13 days on the cool but sunny Côte d'Azur, fantasies of art and avarice were spun with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize...
Every spring and fall, the chief executives of some 50 of America's largest corporations get together without fanfare for a quiet weekend meeting of the Business Council at the posh Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va. The agenda includes tennis, golf, business discussions and briefings from top Government officials behind closed doors. TIME National Economic Correspondent David Beckwith attended last weekend's session and filed this report...
...idea whose moment may have arrived is sweeping the U.S.?for better or for worse. From the halls of Congress to Vermont hamlets to the posh living rooms of Beverly Hills, Americans are not only thinking about the unthinkable, they are opening a national dialogue on ways to control and reduce the awesome and frightening nuclear arsenals of the superpowers. This new awareness of the dangers of nuclear war cuts across traditional political boundaries. Advocates of a bilateral freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weapons include some peacenik activists who led protests against U.S. involvement...
...Government insists most of the cuts apply to "posh student aid." Says Education Deputy Under Secretary Gary Jones: "There's a difference between a student gaining access to higher education and choosing an institution regardless of its cost and expecting the Federal Government to guarantee the amount of money he needs at that level...
...conceivably back Independent-sponsored resolutions that would handicap the rent control board in administering the city's restraints over landlords. And more important, Vellucci could support a weakening of the anti-condominium ordinances, which protect rent-controlled apartments from open market forces that would leave Cambridge a high-priced, posh bedroom community for Boston...