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...electoral votes, the largest bloc among the 50 states. He was encouraged by his pollster, Pat Caddell, who found in his California surveys that Reagan's support was soft. The latest studies by Independent Mervin Field gave the Republican a ten-point lead. Reagan, who has won four prima ries and two general elections in the state, professes not to be worried. Scoffs Aide Spencer: "They're trying a little psychological warfare...
...peremptorily directing her director: "Jason, will you get that creep out of eye line?" "Who, me?" snarls Kim Novak, elaborately gowned as Queen Elizabeth I. "Jason," Taylor continues, violet eyes flashing, "would you put the Virgin Queen back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens who are cast, to their mutual misery...
...General Security Service (known as Shin Bet), Avraham Achituv, had resigned. Israeli newspaper reports about the Star story inspired an angry Knesset debate as well as protest demonstrations outside Begin's residence. Israel's attorney general last week announced that Halevy "may have committed a prima facie violation of Israeli law by publishing the name of the director of the General Security Service" - which is forbidden within Israel - and that he would conduct an investigation to see if an indictment were warranted...
...troupe's difficulties is its wiry, intense artistic director, Yuri Grigorovich, 53. There is a widespread feeling among the dancers that he is arbitrary and dictatorial, plays too many favorites and tampers heavyhandedly with the traditional repertory, while stifling new choreography by reserving the major assignments for himself. Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, now 54 and a revered figure in the U.S.S.R., has become leader of a rebellious faction of Bolshoi veterans, including Maris Liepa and Mikhail Lavrovsky. Many younger dancers, not outspoken, are nevertheless known to feel that Grigorovich denies them opportunities if they fail to catch his capricious...
...most stunning part of Sandalo's testimony was his account of a remarkable meeting he had with Carlo Donat-Cattin, deputy secretary-general and No. 2 man in the dominant Christian Democratic Party. It seemed that Donat-Cattin's son Marco, 28, was a fellow member of Prima Linea. According to San-dalo, when the father learned that police were about to start a man hunt for Marco, he summoned Sandalo and begged him to warn his son that he should flee the country. But who tipped off Donat-Cattin about the impending arrest? Sandalo claimed it came...