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...movie's zenith is reached in the closer. A florid father, despite misspelled names on matchbooks and overcharging musicians, is trying to give Daughter Mimsey a first-class wedding. Mimsey gives him a first-class crisis instead: she refuses to come out of the bathroom and go to the altar. As the afternoon degenerates, the bridled father's assaults on the bathroom door leave him and his cutaway looking like Salvation Army rejects. His face a frieze of capillaries, Matthau ultimately makes King Lear seem a whining serf...
...highly touted "Hamlet Evaluation System" that Newcount has reached its zenith. In late 1969, HES reported that 92.6% of the countryside was under government control. Amid general ridicule, the figure was "revised" to 87.9%. Last week President Thieu announced that 99.8% of the population and 99.4% of the hamlets and villages were controlled by the government. Yet even if the hamlets rated A (for fully government-controlled), few ranking officials would care to spend the night lest the Communists stage a lethal raid...
...business four years ago with only $15,000 capital, half of which he spent on traveling around the U.S. to sell his idea. "People laughed at me," he recalls. But after seven weeks of visiting and calling around to institutions, he arranged his first trade: 48,000 shares of Zenith Radio for $3,264,000. Now Tomaso or his 24-year-old assistant phone all of the firm's clients each morning, asking what stocks they want to buy or sell. When he hits a set of matching intentions, Tomaso calls back and -without revealing the identity...
...serve him well." By that, Harry Robbins ("Bob") Haldeman means that he shares with Richard Nixon a deep-rooted belief in hard work, loyalty and efficiency. The identification began early. Haldeman was a student at U.C.L.A. in the late '40s. Alarm about the Communist threats was approaching its zenith, and his hero then was Congressman Richard Nixon. Today, at 43, still trim, tan and crewcut, Haldeman very much resembles that student of decades past...
...hand, has canceled one of its several JOBS contracts calling for 4,450 production employees; and Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend is the N.A.B. chief for the whole country. The company retained other contracts and has signed one to train 1,000 auto mechanics at its dealerships. Of Zenith Radio Corp.'s trainees, 28% have dropped out since the program started last July, and another 61% have been laid off. "Should there be a further downturn in the economy," said Leonard F. Luce, Zenith's director of Equal Opportunity Programs, "it will be necessary...