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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS 9-11 p..m.). Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds co-star in The Rat Race (1960), Garson Kanin's story of life and love midst Manhattan's maelstrom...
...that colleges force these decisions on students earlier, that the high costs and the tougher competition for grades apply more pressure. "It's unremitting anxiety," says Dr. Edwin Shneidman, a consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health and an authority on suicide. "Every semester is a rat race." More students today are also bothered by shifting sexual attitudes. If they are not inclined to take advantage of the new permissiveness, they may worry that they are latent homosexuals; if they do take advantage, they often discover that "intimacy without emotion," as U.C.L.A. Consultant Psychiatrist Robert Berns explains...
Breakfast Reading. In the late '40s, Reagan was plagued with problems beyond his political and professional environment. His wife of eight years, Actress Jane Wyman, whom he had met while filming Brother Rat, decided to divorce him in 1948. Neither she nor Ronnie has ever discussed their breakup in public, but a close mutual friend recalls that Reagan had long been in the habit of delivering animated readings from the newspaper over breakfast and then insisting on an analytical discussion of current events. Jane, the story goes, finally revolted against eggs-and-cerebration and fled with their two children...
There was some muttering that Negroes were just being used to rat on other Negroes (not entirely true: though the Negro cops were used initially for undercover work in Negro areas, the integrated squad cars patrol white as well as Negro neighborhoods). Still, one retired steelworker has not altered his opinion: "The police department here is rotten to the core...
...clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead rat, one of them shouting: "Man, Mayor, this is where the clean-up is it, baby. Look at this rat...