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...last week moved to shore up the sagging voluntary price controls of Phase III. But he stopped far short of reimposing the tough controls of Phase II-let alone ordering the temporary wage-price freeze that more and more of his economic critics are demanding. His actions brought some cheer to Wall Street, where stock prices recovered somewhat from what had become a headlong rout, but elsewhere left as much doubt as ever that the rise in living costs can be checked...
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY is a cache of fleeting pleasures collected by Claude Lelouch, who always seems to make films (A Man and a Woman) with the same airy cheer, as if he were mailing out greeting cards. The plot is a congenial sort of caper about a gang of aging delinquents (Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione) who hire themselves out for all kinds of elaborate political thuggery. Since ideology cannot be stashed in a numbered Swiss account, it plays no part in their addled schemes, which include kidnaping a Swiss diplomat and hijacking...
...society's 28th general (to serve, like the Pope, for life) was a career missionary named Pedro Arrupe, the first Basque to head the order since Ignatius himself. Something of a mystic, also like Ignatius, Arrupe, now 65, presides over the troubled order today with disarming calm and good cheer...
...fear. The jealousy is exhibited at wash time. During this period they stare enviously at their neighbor's laundry, which is always whiter-and the colored things brighter-than their own. With wide eyes, they then proceed to learn a series of mysterious monosyllables, among them Biz, Fab, Cheer, Dash, All and Bold. They do not exhibit fear until nightfall, or on weekend afternoons. At these points the MOTHER-IN-LAW arrives for a white-glove inspection of the home. This includes a revealing scrutiny of the kitchen (with its telltale odors), the male's collar (with...
...about the life of prisoners in the North had already emerged: captives there were held in camps, sustained by regular though substandard diets and permitted to keep themselves physically fit. It was a hard but organized life. "During some of our darkest days," Capt. Denton recalled, "we tried to cheer one another by emitting a signal, the soft whistling of the song California, Here I Come. We usually knew we were whistling in the dark...