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...Vigor. Gay activists plan to press their drive for full civil rights with new vigor, posing complex legal and moral problems for the courts and lawmakers. So far, the loss seems to have had no effect on a bill breezing through the liberal Massachusetts legislature that would outlaw discrimination against gays in public employment. If enacted the measure would be the first such state law in the nation. In Washington, Congressman Edward Koch, who represents Greenwich Village, has rounded up 38 sponsors for a federal gay rights bill, but is skeptical of its prospects. Last week's vote didn...
...exactly surprised at Bella's decision. The onetime Congresswoman, loser to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for a Democratic nomination in last year's U.S. Senate race, had been announcing her announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally. "I'm good from top to bottom and every other part in between." Most Gotham handicappers are willing to believe her: Bella is rated a strong primary threat to Mayor Abraham Beame...
Field carefully turns the native and foreign soils that have nurtured his subject: the Cambridge University days when Nabokov devoted most of his time to sports and writing Russian poetry; the vigor of exile literature in prewar Europe; dispersal of emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov's love affair with America, his teaching experiences at Wellesley and Cornell, and his success with Lolita are covered in more detail than most readers may care to absorb. But Nabokov's friendship and celebrated squabble with Edmund Wilson are sensitively yet amusingly rendered...
...vote against Labor rather than for Begin, even though the strong-willed little Polish immigrant has long been recognized as one of the country's most dynamic politicians. Begin suffered a heart attack (complicated by pneumonia) at the beginning of the eleven-week campaign, but he displayed surprising vigor when he appeared before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. "What occupied territories?" Begin roared...
...only housing starts, but some other key indicators last week showed that the economy is surging into spring with the vigor of a baseball rookie. Despite the bitter winter, total U.S. output of goods and services rose 5.2% during the first three months of the year, up smartly from the 2.6% rate in the last quarter of 1976. Inflation slowed; consumer prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%, v. 12.7% in February and 10% in January. March industrial production took its biggest jump in 19 months-1.4%-and personal income scored its largest increase in almost...