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...annual American exodus. From all indications, fewer than 7 million Americans will go overseas this year, down about 7% from 1974, and about 20% below halcyon 1973. Latest figures show that travel to Europe, normally the destination of three out of seven Americans going overseas, is off 10%. Notes Victor Minerbo, a familiar Parisian presence who for years has wheedled business for the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower: "Look around and see how many Americans you can spot! None...
Last week, Beame tried to get more work out of 100,000 city office and hospital workers by ending the tradition of shortening summer workdays by an hour. Outraged, Victor Gotbaum, the local AFSCME leader, said that he would seek to have the mayor's edict overturned through arbitration...
France, too, has an emergent superstar. Isabelle Adjani, 19, is "the only actress who has made me cry in front of a television screen," said Director François Truffaut after seeing her in Giraudoux's Ondine. Truffaut signed her for an epic role, the doomed daughter of Victor Hugo in The Story of Adele H, to be released this fall. "I wanted to do a film with her very quickly," he explained, "because I thought I could steal from her those precious things-the way her face and body express everything...
...College Placement Council reported that there are 18% fewer jobs available for college graduates this year than there were a year ago. Job openings for engineering graduates with bachelor's degrees are down 20%; openings in the auto, building and mechanical equipment industries have plummeted 60%. Says Victor Lindquist, director of the placement office at Northwestern University: "This job market is the most difficult one that we've had in almost 20 years...
...lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical comedy stars (he was the original Alexander Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing) when he made this movie and his appeal is immediately self-evident. The next night...