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Here are two of the best film actors in the world, looking miserable and fighting hard as they try to scrounge a scrap of grace and dignity from the shambles of this shopgirl's religious romance. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch first met on screen in Lost Horizon, an unnatural disaster of a movie which required them to bill and coo at each other while chorus boys in loincloths leapt all about them. In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor...
...Harvard: "If the wholesale index does not do dramatically better by, say November or December, then the outlook is pretty grim." One hopeful sign: after several years of going straight up, prices are dropping on many raw industrial commodities, including cowhide, copper, rubber, wastepaper, cotton, lumber and steel scrap. They are declining largely because of reduced demand...
...families have vacationed together, and Whyte's younger son Roger has dated Ford's daughter Susan. Whyte says that he and Ford are "pro-free enterprise." Among his opinions: new wage-price controls would hamper steel production; the U.S. should "close the gates" on exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices up at home); it would be a "tragedy" if the U.S. reimposed an embargo on imports of Rhodesian chrome; and there is only one way that American industry can raise the capital it needs to expand-"more profits...
...Scrap Plans. Nixon said that he will seek to hold federal spending for this fiscal year to about $300 billion, or about $5 billion less than present esti mates. But beyond promising to eliminate 40,000 of the Government's 2.8 million jobs he gave no hint of where the cuts would be made. Nixon announced that he has ordered a "sweeping review" of all federal regulatory agencies in order to scrap old rules that hamper production. He said that the nation must "reevaluate" environmental and safety laws, which many businessmen have criticized as being too costly. In private...
...their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...