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...room for maneuvering. Intentionally or not, the Palestinians by their attack refocused the Israelis' concern for security. If Rabin appears willing to give away too much, he will be sharply attacked by hawks within his own Labor Party and by the opposition. Ironically, Rabin's sharpest critic in the Knesset, Likud Bloc Leader Menachem Begin, had a curious tie to the Savoy Hotel. Begin used the hotel as a hideout in the days before Israeli independence, when he battled the British as leader of the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi...
...Lochonsky of Columbia and Dave Uffelman of Princeton are expected to be Bennett's sharpest foes while Rutledge is favored in the evenly matched foil event...
...will need all the sympathy and good will he can bank as the bad news accumulates over the coming months. Last week it was announced that industrial production had fallen a dismaying 3.6% in January, the sharpest monthly drop since the Depression year of 1937. George Meany, the redoubtable president of the AFL-CIO, declared, "We're past the recession stage; we're going into a depression." He predicted that unemployment would hit 10% by summer, and that was not far from the estimates of some economists (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, who supported the G.O.P...
Frankenstein's monster is Peter Boyle (Joe), an actor wonderfully deft at being clumsy. The movie galvanizes just about the time of his appearance. Boyle shows up in, and helps make work, the two sharpest scenes: an encounter with a blind hermit (Gene Hackman, doing a dexterous comic cameo), in which the monster is assaulted by the hermit's well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime...
Economists knew that the November job statistics would be bad, but when the Government released the figures at week's end they were far worse than expected. Unemployment jumped to 6.5% of the labor force, from 6% in October, the sharpest one-month rise in 13 years; the jobless rate is now higher than in any month since October 1961. Until November, employment and unemployment had both been rising, but last month the number of people who have jobs fell by 800,000. The news helped send the stock market reeling to another twelve-year low. The Dow Jones...