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...basically the same sad club of a year ago, and rumors are that Blacman will hock his magic wand for a couple of blue-chip recruits. Sophomore Dick Clasby, namesake of Harvard's halfback star of the fifties, could...
...exchange for cars, oil for the pumps of Sweden " We are leaving the defensive role Wand going on the offensive," declared Pehr Gyllenhammar, president of Volvo, Sweden's troubled giant (1977 sales: $3.6 billion). On that confident note, he announced last week a bold and imaginative reorganization that in one stroke will supply the automaker with urgently needed cash, give Sweden access to North Sea oilfields and bring in Norway as an energetic junior partner in a new binational corporation. The Norwegians, eager to use their oil riches to develop high-technology industries, called Gyllenhammar's proposal...
While Feydeau whisks his characters about with a wand of madness, he also displays surgical detachment in dissecting the foibles of the French middle class. The men tend to be pompous hypocrites. The women seek out opportunities for sexual revenge but are coy about entering the beds they have promised to grace. Not exclusively French...
...extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed with money." Now, if only he could get the British economy to do that trick...
...emphasis from the effects of the family's psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply, and problems will vanish. Rather than looking ahead, the council appears to be advocating the same sort of reform that, in general, failed to solve the problems of society in the 1960s. They seem unlikely to do much better now for the beleaguered U.S. family...