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...WORKING. Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher, 52, canceled a holiday trip to France and waded into a twelve-hour-a-day schedule of speeches and political appearances. For his part, Prime Minister James ("Sunny Jim") Callaghan, 66, seemed as caught up as everyone else in a pre-election whirl, trumpeting the virtues of his Labor Party at the annual Trades Union Congress in a rousing partisan speech that brought delegates to their feet...
...Julia Child & Company, a new television series that PBS will inaugurate in early October, she will whip up eclectic menus liberally seasoned with dishes from the U.S. Each show in the series is built around a distinctive gastronomic occasion, such as dinner for the boss or a pre-football-game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them to say, 'If she can do it, I can.' " The show should also help Child cook her way out of a Gallic rut. Says she: "I've been in the French straitjacket...
...frightening to see that the "New Elite" [Aug. 21] have developed such a callous attitude toward savings and planning for the future. These individuals seem to think that they are something new and unique to this country. Unfortunately they are merely a repeat performance of an overextended, spendthrift, pre-Depression America. They are naive to think that the rug can't be pulled from under their Utopia via a recession, job layoffs or a death in the family. What these "college graduates" need is to recognize that today's new elite can also become tomorrow's newly...
DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that...
...Jordan Bonfante and Roland Flamini have pieced together much of the story of the proceedings in the Sistine Chapel. It is clear that Luciani came to power through no accident, but as a result of a spontaneous consensus that evolved from three agreements reached during the lengthy pre-conclave period that followed the death of Pope Paul...