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...make Stromboli with Neorealist Master Roberto Rossellini. Soon there were hints that something more than professional respect informed their relationship, rumors devastatingly confirmed by the illegitimate birth of her first child by Rossellini. Her first husband won custody of their child in an ugly divorce action, there was a vicious denunciation in the U.S. Senate, and, finally, what might have been the best years of her career were blanked out before timorous Hollywood let her come back in 1956, playing a woman safely desexualized by old age in Anastasia...
...debt threatens to soak up much of the available investment capital. Another is that the fiscal irresponsibility suggests that the notable progress made in cutting inflation is only temporary. The high interest rates have in turn blocked the hope of an economic recovery by dampening investment and demand. A vicious cycle has set in: the continuing recession increases Government outlays for welfare and unemployment benefits, lowers the Government's tax receipts and raises the cost of financing the trillion-dollar federal debt...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...
...about its vexing propensity for popping up at inopportune moments: "It knows exactly when you're going away, or when you're really looking forward to something." Says Dr. David Baker, a New York obstetrician: "Stress can reactivate the illness. It may just feed upon itself and create a vicious cycle...
...dead for now and forever in this century," said a joyous Phyllis Schlafly, the amendment's leading foe, at a press conference in Washington. There was no conciliatory gesture to ERA backers, whom she termed "con men" and "vicious people...