Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus began a bizarre story that might conceivably have been offered as a script proposal to, say, Columbia Pictures. But the plot and the principal characters were real. The actor featured in the opening scene was Cliff Robertson (Obsession). His puzzlement over the unreceived $10,000 check led to the disclosure that David Begelman, 56, the powerful, wheeler-dealer president of Columbia Pictures' film and television divisions, had ripped off his studio to the tune of $61,008; he had forged checks in the name of Robertson and others and had padded his cushiony expense account by an additional...
After a thundering 1977 model year, automobile executives are scrutinizing the latest sales figures with the anxiety and puzzlement of early-morning dockers timing the latest workout by an erratic race horse. Overall, the car industry's performance has been disappointing of late. Domestic sales dropped by 6.3% in the first ten days of December, the third decline in a row. General Motors sales were down by nearly 14% from last year's, while Chrysler and American Motors slumped by 8.4% and 29%, respectively...
...media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping high school coaches, asked his mother his favorite dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed...
This insistence that Lance had done no wrong increased the puzzlement of old Washington hands about Jimmy Carter. Many members of the Washington establishment still resent that he made them an issue in the campaign, often with moralistic promises to do better than they had ("I'll never lie to you"). These legislators and bureaucrats are not displeased to see Carter set back, but many of them also worry that his mishandling of the Lance affair shows that he is more isolated than is good for the country...
...human rights issue has become the centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His stand is popular at home; abroad it has won admiration mixed with puzzlement and even indignation. The policy ran into two major tests last week at diplomatic meetings more than 5,000 miles apart. In Grenada, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found himself defending the Administration's criticism of human rights violations by various Latin American governments against a chorus of officials who argued that terrorism is more of a menace (see following story). In Belgrade, differences between the Kremlin and the White House...