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...finishing a film in Australia, and Father Sir Michael Redgrave, 68, opened last week in The Hollow Crown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Arriving in New York City, he hastened to congratulate youngest daughter Lynn Redgrave, 30, for scoring her second success on Broadway, as the demon slimmer of My Fat Friend. Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent." · Dinner with the boss is the kind of awkward evening that wives have to learn to cope with. But Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, 39, seemed to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1974 | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs up 99% since 1970, cheese 78%, chicken 69% and bread will rise to just half a penny less than the celebrated "three-shilling loaf that Heath in 1970 had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Ted and Harold on the husting | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Thus the rule that permitted tax deductions proved a boon for historians. But a law passed in 1969 made the historians' pickings slimmer. Congress, seeking to bar Lyndon Johnson from reaping continued tax benefits from the private papers of his political offices, abolished tax deductions for donations of papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Who Owns the President's Papers? | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...again to the same promotional short for King of Hearts. At Harvard Square you can escape the ad by running off to the bathroom, but at Brattle that takes too long so you're forced to sit it out. Meanwhile, the selection of films at other Cambridge theaters grows slimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 9/27/1973 | See Source »

...trend toward coeducation continued, the probability that Radcliffe women would not merely become Harvard women grew slimmer. Harvard's status has not been debatable at any time in the history of the relationship between the two schools. The status of Radcliffe, on the other hand, has always been on the line...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Merger Yielded to Non-Merger Merger | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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