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Well, not that much of a thing since the late Jacqueline Susann didn't write that kind of dirty books. It is at least enough of a thing, however, to propel January toward an older man, an adversary of her father's named Tom Colt (David Janssen). Colt's main grudge against Wayne: "He took my Pulitzer Prize novel and messed it up as a movie...
...mothers, among others. For them, society should provide some form of guaranteed income, an idea endorsed in the past by such conservatives as Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman. Conservatives note that it is better to give special help to problem groups than to pump up the whole economy and propel inflation...
...doggedly consistent this year than the stock market. For nearly six months, prices on Wall Street have climbed steadily higher, higher, higher as investors have shifted more and more cash into the market in anticipation of a brisk business upturn later in the year. Last week this confidence helped propel the Dow Jones industrial average up another 17.68 points, to a new 1975 high of 873.12. While that is still well below the Dow's alltime peak of 1051.7 in 1973, it nonetheless represents a hefty 50% rise since last December. No fewer than...
...Anthony Wedgwood Benn stands in greatest danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned the referendum into a plebiscite on himself as well as the EEC. It now seems...
Steve Saxon, Joe Whatley and Mike Jemison each scored one try to propel the B team to an easy 12-0 victory over the Columbia B squad. "We simply outclassed said outgunned them," wing Kevin Ward said yesterday...