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...aides warn that within no more than three or four months the new President must convince Congress, the business community and the public that he not only can shape but can begin to execute a coherent, comprehensive plan to combat both inflation and recession. Political and economic cycles whirl too rapidly these days to give him any more time than that. Congress must be persuaded to enact some of the hotly controversial cuts in federal spending before the momentum generated by Reagan's landslide election victory begins to ebb. Financiers, businessmen, workers and consumers must be assured that...
...night before New Year's Eve, Georgia Head Coach Vince Dooley decided to enforce an early curfew on himself. Weary from the whirl of practices, press conferences and official functions surrounding the Sugar Bowl showdown between his No. 1-ranked Bulldogs and Notre Dame, Dooley passed up a party honoring the teams and went to bed at 9 p.m. It was perhaps his wisest coaching decision of the year. "If I'd gone to the party, I would never have slept again," he asserted. The reason: while Dooley snoozed, Sugar Bowl officials staged a disco contest between Notre...
...exploitation flick, and high-brow, somewhat pretentious anti-war statement (circa Vietnam) and quickie-metaphysical study of Paranoia, Art, and the old Illusion/Reality enigma. The Stunt Man's got it all, even those big, capitalized questions of Significance, which flutter like damp fortune-cookie slogans blowing around in the whirl wind of the movie's frenetic action. There is too much...
...stay in Vienna lasts only eight to ten days and is a whirl of breathless activity. Responsibilities are minimal, and the limited amount of time in Austria assumes the air of a vacation, which acts as a brief respite before the serious work of building a future really begins. Limited only by finances, the immigrants tour the city of waltzes in the best style of any tourist, making the obligatory rounds of museums and parks...
...United Press in 1954. Recruited into the diplomatic service, he was appointed chief government spokesman in 1972. As permanent representative to the U.N. since 1974, he has regularly demonstrated a Prussian passion for exactitude with an un-Teutonic irreverence and an irrepressible zest for diplomacy's social whirl. "A good man to carry this important honor for us," comments a West German foreign ministry official. "It's equally important that it won't go to his head...