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Chancellor Helmut Kohl conceded that the setback for his Christian Democrats in the economically depressed Saarland was "very painful." Privately, he ascribed it to the tireless zest of Lafontaine, who represents an emerging group of left-wing Social Democrats who are calling for their country's withdrawal from NATO's military structure and an end to U.S. missile deployment in West Germany...
...some big companies are fighting back. They are trying to create the spirit, zest and rewards of entrepreneurship right in their corridors, shop floors and laboratories. They are giving employees the resources and freedom to pursue their own ideas, cutting back on traditional red tape, endless meetings and other obstacles that can slow down innovation...
...unscientific age, he means there is a scarcity of rational thought about the technological forces that have shaped the modern world. He was there at the creation. His enlisted-man's version of brain-storming days at Los Alamos seizes the spirit of the place with typical zest and informality: "What (Hans) Bethe needed was someone to talk to, to push his ideas against. Well, he comes in to this little squirt in an office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy. It'll go like this.' And he says, 'Just a moment...
...days of the 1984 election campaign, Ronald Reagan met twice with the editors of TIME for exclusive interviews. The first occasion was in the Oval Office, the second in Los Angeles'Century Plaza Hotel on the afternoon of his election victory. At both sessions he was filled with zest and optimism as he talked of where he felt America stood today and what might be achieved in his second term. Excerpts...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...