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...family, Lange hangs back from any real confrontation. She goes through the motions but her heart just isn't in it. When she questions her son about a condom she has found in his room, for example, her voice has the soft cadences of a schoolgirl rather than the stern tone of an angry mother...
...sign, Japanese officials later speculated for a time, that fire might have ignited the solid fuel of the three SSN5 missiles (range: about 750 miles) that the diesel-powered warship can carry. A day later, the sub was spotted again, this time with smoke billowing from the stern while accompanying tugs trained streams of water on it. Whatever the problem, the ship now seemed incapable of diving or even cruising on its own power...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
Ironweed was turned down 13 times, frequently with the comment "Who wants to read a book about a bum?" Bellow did, and afterward wrote a stern letter to Viking, the house that originally rejected the book: "That the author of Billy Phelan should have a manuscript kicking around looking for a publisher is disgraceful." The admonishment worked...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...