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Until Saturday, the stickwomen had spent the season surprising people, going into games as the underdog only to psych themselves to a sky-high level and pull off the upset...
Hollywood is sky-high over the Israeli rescue of 104 hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. "The mission reads like a movie script," rejoiced MCA President Sidney Sheinberg. Thus, only 72 hours after the commandos struck, the studios were plotting missions of their own-to see which would be the first onscreen with a film version. At Shein-berg's Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes...
...rising as businessmen gobbled up loans to finance expansion and build inventories. But this time interest rates throughout the recovery's first year have continued the slide that began during the recession. The prime rate charged by banks to their most credit-worthy customers has dropped from a sky-high 12% in mid-1974 to 6¾% now. Yields on high-quality corporate bonds have held almost unchanged, and those on "federal funds" -money that banks lend overnight to each other-are less than half the almost 13% of two years...
Miami today-with its muggings, choked freeways, dirty air, foul water. littered beaches and sky-high housing prices-looks a lot like the New York City I left four years ago. It is time we shed our farmer fantasies, stay put and start making our cities work. Running away doesn't solve problems...
...Right now I'd say things are looking pretty good," first-year coach Debi Field said. "We have more people (28) than a year ago, and we may even get 10 or 12 more. The whole team is really sky-high about the coming season...