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Congratulations on the brilliant special report on China by Michael Demarest and Carl Mydans [Oct. 23]. A perfect blending of the pictorial and reportorial, making one feel the pulse of modern China, whose doors are now being reopened to the rest of the world...
...owner with Eschel Rhoodie and Mulder of a large farm in the Transvaal, to finance a $26.3 million offer for the paper. Joe Allbritton, the Texan who owned the newspaper from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. this year, denies that McGoff ever approached him. McGoff, whose Panax Corp. publishing company acknowledges bidding for the Star before Allbritton bought it, has denounced the Daily Mail story about a South African loan as "utter nonsense...
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
...first, none of Roots' creators wanted to risk such comparisons. "We had at least six lengthy discussions about whether or not to do a sequel," recalls Alex Haley, the man whose genealogical search launched the whole Roots phenomenon. "Our initial feelings were negative. We felt the other did so well that we should just let it hang up there. Then, very gradually, it began to come together. Someone would ask me about stories I had, so I told them about Sister Carrie or Aunt Liz, and then some more...
...story involves a shy visionary rabbit named Fiver whose precognition that real estate developers are about to wreck his warren leads sensible Hazel and tough old Bigwig to organize a group of dissidents and set out for Fiver's dimly perceived paradise, the Watership Down of the title. In time they are aided by a delightfully loony seagull (whose wonderful vocal characterization is supplied by the late Zero Mostel), who acts as scout and air arm in the climactic struggle against the fascist warren of the evil General Woundwort. Along the way there are troubles with the dogs, cats...