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Comparing the growth of 13 major industrialized countries over 20 years, Beckerman factored in changes in leisure time and income distribution - two variables not included in the calculation of G.N.P.- and found they made no difference in the countries' relative growth rates. Beckerman's overall conclusion: the standard G.N.P. measure is still "a jolly good indication of changes in economic welfare...
Died. Saburo Eda, 69, a founder and former vice chairman of Japan's Socialist Party; of acute hepatitis; in Tokyo. Eda hoped that Japanese socialism would create an amalgam reflecting the Soviet Union's social-security system, Britain's parliamentary democracy and the U.S. standard of living. He urged his party to de-emphasize Marxian credos like class war and nationalization. But the party became increasingly radical and Eda left it last March, hoping to form his own more moderate group...
...voters were undecided which of the competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other, Labor was showing the frayed edges of a party too long in power...
...fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops. To work out the photographic special effects, Lucas hired John Dykstra, an expert in the field. For his space scenes, Kubrick had used what is called composite opticals: he would put one -part of a scene-a spaceship, say -on film and black out the background. Then...
...survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland. How that rabbit runs...