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...upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After marching in a procession in the town of Clear Lake that included a troop of fez-wearing Shriners on motorcycles, Kemp was approached by a woman who pleaded, "Let me shake your hand, just in case you're President some...
...smooth journey. As new companies enter the market and established chains expand, there is the growing risk of a glut. "Profit potential now is high, but success breeds excess," says Daniel Daniele, an analyst at Laventhol & Horwath, an accounting firm specializing in the lodging industry. Daniele predicts an industry shake-out in the next two to five years, but that is a distant prospect. This summer travelers tooling down interstate highways are sure to find plenty of bargain motels...
...first sees is a family bound by ritual and affection, led by the 70-year-old paterfamilias, Charles. But as temperatures and voices rise, unflattering revelations occur. The internecine tennis matches are actually contests of will: "Bryan, a fragile 18-year-old loser, walked to the net to shake hands with his uncle. Ellen was so proud of the open, pleasant look Bryan managed to maintain . . . She knew how much that look cost." The wishes of Grandfather are, in fact, imperious demands; the grumbling about local workmen disguises arrant and irrational prejudice...
...shake things up, it took another wave of immigrants: the influx of sophisticated foreign films in the late '50s and early '60s. Soon every young Hollywood hotshot wanted to make movies just like Fellini's, or Bergman's, or Francois Truffaut's. A picture's subject could be uniquely American, but its style would be self-consciously "artistic" (read European). Two Hollywood hits of 1967 strikingly assimilated these international trends: Bonnie and Clyde, originally offered to Truffaut to direct, and The Graduate, in which Berlin-born Director Mike Nichols ransacked the mannerisms of a dozen art- house auteurs to tell...
During his first year at the helm of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty. A Michael Spence, as expected, has steered clear of initiating any radical changes. Yel, while there have been no shake-ups, most professors and administrators agree that he has handled the transition very smoothly...