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...move toward a breakaway was led by a trio of former Cabinet Ministers -Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers-who created a new "Council for Social Democracy" to protest radical policies and eventually form the basis of a new centrist party. They immediately became known as the "Gang of Three," but were quickly joined by a fourth, former Deputy Leader Roy Jenkins. By week's end, nine more Labor M.P.s had joined the rebel ranks...
...silent Cal for reducing the national debt. Nameplate medallions were screwed onto the backs of chairs in the Cabinet Room, readying them for their new occupants. An announcement was made that there would be a scheduling meeting in the Roosevelt Room. "Where is the Roosevelt Room?" someone asked. Shirley Moore, secretary to Top Aide Michael Deaver, received her first phone call. The caller wanted Hamilton Jordan. "He's not here any more," she said. The caller asked for Jack Watson then. "No, they're all gone now," she said. "We're the new folks in town...
...Change of Seasons, Anthony Hopkins plays a glum college teacher having an affair with one of his students (Bo Derek, who is splendid-looking, of course, but whose blankness of eye and manner makes one long to see her admission test). When his wife (Shirley MacLaine) discovers this lapse, she immediately takes up with a young carpenter (Michael Brandon), whose brain has been dulled by an overdose of Consciousness III. Soon they all edgily repair to a country house. There they scandalize the married couple's daughter, who drops by with some problems of her own, and Derek...
...Shirley Bassey, 43, singer, on performing in Monte Carlo: "The audiences there clap too slowly because they are so loaded down with jewelry, and they're always checking to see if Princess Grace or Prince Rainier are clapping first. By the time they've done that, I'm into my next song...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, on his third journey east since Election Day, presiding over a lunch at Blair House for women members of Congress. There he was given a preview of the demands that will begin to supplant the ritual once he is in the White House. Democrat Shirley Chisholm, whose district contains Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, asked what he was going to do about jobs for the inner cities. Reagan briefly explained his support for an innovative proposal to establish free enterprise zones that would provide tax incentives for industry to move into impoverished areas. Chisholm...