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...object to the principle behind the usage of Mr. McCloy's name and believe that there are many more people more deserving than John J. McCloy of such an honor. Pauline W. Chew Mary Pye Akill Tysen Yvonne Sin Suzanne Matheral Marry Chavez Emilly Schulman
President Reagan praises the virtues of free trade in speeches, but his Administration has been unable to resist the outcry for protection. Admits William Brock, the U.S. trade representative: "None of us is without sin." In the case of autos, the U S has politely but firmly persuaded the Japanese for three straight years to put a 1 68 million limit on the cars they export to the U.S., about 20% of the American market. Detroit is still not satisfied. Iacocca wants the Japanese to be held to 15%. The United Auto Workers are pushing in Congress a "domestic content...
...plot line is as simple as sin. Previously wed to each other, Amanda (Taylor) and Elyot (Burton) meet again on the terrace of a seaside resort in France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...
Hitchcock was a cockney, born in London in 1899, and he had a Victorian fascination with sin and with the delicious precariousness of female virtue. His best films placed a succession of cool, blond actresses in jeopardy, and his pattern of filming became a matter of smothering the goddess of the moment with an incestuous sort of fatherly attention, and of laboring to control every detail of her life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch...
Inaccuracy. "Errors of fact do more to undermine the trust and confidence of readers than any other sin we commit. A city editor I knew used to say: 'A story is only as good as the dumbest error...