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Under Kreisky, the country enjoyed remarkable labor-management peace, relatively mild inflation (5% this year) and Western Europe's lowest unemployment rate (6%) outside of Switzerland. Kreisky was always far more popular than his party, even though he frequently confounded the country with his prominence on the international stage-mediating distant disputes, pleading the cause of the Third World, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization although he is of Jewish extraction-and his penchant for lecturing Austrians in his gravel voice like an irascible Opa, or grandpapa...
...Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather and mild winds they had prayed for. And lo, as blowers pumped air through Kong's toes, the creature filled out to his full, magnificent size, producing one of the most striking sights ever added to the Manhattan skyline. (The original, of course, only climbed a model.) Alas, the King...
...Saturday for the laxwomen, who will face Yale in their first home game in three weeks. And although this weekend's two relatively easy wins didn't provide much challenge, they could just be the spark the squad had needed. The Crimson, which had recently been suffering from a mild slump, upped its record to 7-3 (3-1 in Ivy play) with the two wins...
...Leonard Nimoy, who plays Mr. Spock in Star Trek; and a report on a cable series for children, Faerie Tale Theater. The listings are tersely descriptive rather than critical ("so that you can use your own good judgment," says a message to readers), though capsule movie reviews poke some mild fun, even at films carried on Time Inc.'s pay services, Home Box Office and Cinemax. Top editors pledge that coverage of company-owned program services, and their competitors, will be "evenhanded...
...happens in Poland, the workers are a courageous lot of human beings but when it happens here to American workers, they are described as ungrateful, radical, and unpatriotic. The double standards are dramatically portrayed when a university like Harvard can turn its back on Americans struggling for some mild strand of security and insists it is honoring Walesa for the same reasons...