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DIVINE DISOBEDIENCE: PROFILES IN CATHOLIC RADICALISM by Francine du Plessix Gray. 322 pages. Knopf...
...been out for a year or so that science fiction is in trouble. With all the routine miracles being provided by doctors and astronauts, what spaced-out situations are left for the imagination? The solution seems to lie in the past rather than the future. Last year Daphne du Maurier welded the 14th century to the 20th in House on the Strand. Now veteran Screenwriter Jack Finney (The Body Snatchers) tries the same sort of literary retreat, but into the New York City of the 1880s...
...Whatever Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is like as a private person is irrelevant; as a public personage she has become for many people a colossal bore. Jackie with hemline up. Jackie with hemline down. Jackie and Ari at Maxim's. Jackie shopping on the Via Gregoriana, the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, Madison Avenue. What could be more tiresome...
Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes...
...biggest deals of all, Francis I. du Pont & Co., which had a $7.7 million operating loss last year, agreed to merge with Glore Forgan Staats, Inc. Du Pont, the U.S.'s third largest retail brokerage house, offers a valuable distribution system-a national network of offices with many customers-for the new securities issues that are a major part of Glore Forgan's business. As a cost-saving measure, Du Pont in the past year has been forced to pare back from Ill. branch offices to 95; it will now absorb 20 Glore Forgan offices. More important, Du...