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Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...
...Students who were fundamentalists in September frequently are demythologizers by January. Some students who have no faith take the courses because they fill a genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students who study religion as a snap generally get their heads snapped back. For a doctorate in the subject at Columbia, graduate students need a working knowledge of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew, besides French and German. "You don't get marks for piety," says Stanford's Brown...
Wants Helped. On the other side of the coin, some recently ailing West European economies are recuperating. France's growth rate, which last year was cut in half (to 2.5%) as a result of a credit clampdown that effectively stemmed inflation, is expected to snap back to 4.5% this year, as restrictions are eased. Investors were so cheered by the recent removal of Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, architect of deflation, that they kicked the stock market's blue chips up 10% to 15% just after the change. "But," warns the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...fifths per year per person-double the rate in the rest of the country. Last week the 15-year-old oasis of cheap alcohol was drying up, the victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet and snow to snap up West Berlin's stocks of liquor in a frenzied Christmas shopping rush. Tavernkeepers and restaurant owners bid up the rent of cellars to hoard extra cases...
...dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius...