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Paint their names on a solid oak door and they could be a Wall Street law firm: Monteith & Rand. Put them on a busy street and they would scarcely be noticed: John Monteith, 29, looks like a cheery ad salesman; Suzanne Rand, 28, looks like a Cybill Shepherd with facial expressions. But drop them on a stage-any stage anywhere-and Monteith & Rand are the funniest, most inventive comedy team to come along in years, recalling the days of Nichols...
...Administration's first major response to Russia's sentencing of dissidents, Jimmy Carter canceled a $6.8 million sale of an advanced Sperry Rand computer to Tass, the official Soviet news agency. At the same time, he said that he was making all U.S. exports of oil technology to the Soviets subject to Government license. That was a clear warning that within the next few weeks he might ban the $144 million sale to Russia by Dresser Industries of a plant to produce advanced oil-drilling equipment...
...cried an editorial in the Rand Daily Mail last week, "not again!" The South African newspaper had good reason for its dismay. In the same Port Elizabeth police building where Political Activist Stephen Biko was held for four days last September before his highly suspicious death from a supposedly self-inflicted bump on the head (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), another black prisoner died under curious circumstances. According to police, the prisoner leaped without warning to his death through an open fifth-floor window during a security police interrogation. When announcing the incident, Minister of Justice James T. Kruger declared...
...Rand Daily Mail was not alone in decrying the death. Member of Parliament Helen Suzman, a critic of both Kruger and the administration, called for the police minister's resignation. Kruger brushed this aside. He scheduled a formal inquest into Tabalaza's death, at which Tabalaza's family can be present. In addition, said Kruger, "as far as I can ascertain, the police are putting bars on those windows right...
...Welch predicted that the pay of black workers would steadily fall further behind that of whites because the blacks would be trapped in dead-end jobs. But as a U.C.L.A. professor, he suspected that social change had outmoded his pessimism, arid he joined with James P. Smith, a Rand Corp. economist in a new study of census data. Last week they released their conclusions: between 1955 and 1975, black male workers increased their pay from 63.5% to 76.9% of the white average-and for women the black-white gap just about disappeared. In 1955 black female workers earned only...