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...case, the cast being assembled at Helsinki is indisputably topnotch. The star was unquestionably that durable ex-heavy Leonid Brezhnev. Co-starring in a role that his fans are a little uneasy about is Gerald Ford, who is coming up fast as a jovial but strong character actor. Among the performers sharing the limelight will be French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Star-Studded Summit Spectacular | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...prestige increases for Harvard, so does its ability to attract top high school athletes, most of whom come here with the belief that the school runs a topnotch sports program...

Author: By Richard H. P. sia, | Title: Sia at the Game | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

...acting is also topnotch. Robert Redford's McKay is a perfect seemingly sexless but actually hungry, American idealist; MeIvyn Douglas is fine as his corrupt father; Don Porter, veteran of fatherly roles in TV sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born exhibitionist and a rockribbed physical facade. But Peter Boyle steals the show as Marvin Lucas, McKay's mysterious New York-based campaign manager. Lucas is tough, and smart, and flexible, a Madison Avenue superman; but in his own oily way we feel he cares more seriously than anyone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Candidate | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

...mile trial runs, the company said, Ford employees performed "unscheduled, unauthorized maintenance" on the test cars, presumably including engine tune-ups and replacement of points and plugs. Since the tests are specifically designed to measure emissions from cars that have been kept in less than topnotch condition-as will often happen when they get into buyers' hands-the unscheduled repair work threw a monkey wrench into Ford's results. Earlier the company had quietly withdrawn its application for engine approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, and last week it announced that four testing employees were being "reassigned." Growled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Superexpensive Tune-Up | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Popular tastes, inflationary economics, the scissors and blue pencils of outrageous editorial fortune, all conspire against topnotch depravity. In addition, journalism brings more actual horror into the home than gothic tales could ever manage. The threshold of shock keeps rising, and with it that numbness characteristic of the saddest of all monsters, the zombie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dream Ghoul | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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