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...most Europeans, train travel has been a way of life. It is fast, efficient and cheap. European air travel, on the other hand, has been fast, efficient and expensive. National air carriers divide up the market and, lacking stiff competition, charge pretty much what they please. Until last month, a 213-mile Paris-London flight cost twice as much as a 205-mile New York-Washington trip...
...fans from Harvard are watching now--take a 20 for style and watch out for crabs. Don't turn too much as you go through the Anderson Bridge or the stiff wind will toss you onto the Cambridge shore. Oh, yeah, and don't take the right hand arch--it carries a stiff 60-second penalty...
...Syrians were also suffering badly. More than 200 members of the occupying force were reported killed in deadly artillery duels with the 12,000-man militias of the Christian National Liberal and Phalange parties. The Christians' ability to keep up a stiff resistance depended on the outcome of battles over two bridges linking East Beirut with the main coastal roads heading north. If the Syrians cut them, the militiamen would be trapped, with no chance for supplies from Israel or escape...
Price has been the major deterrent. A computer system costs about $20,000 per check-out lane, or $150,000 for the average supermarket-a stiff investment for a chain commonly operating on profit margins of 2% or less. Still, most chains are now testing the systems and are pleased with their performance. The number of installations is slowly growing, with 500 units expected to be in place by year's end and 1,000 by 1980. The surviving equipment-makers are still counting on huge sales eventually, but the wait in line is going to be long...
...sobriety with which it has been mounted. Director Schaffner seems determined to overwhelm our disbelief with production values-a strategy that frequently threatens to succeed. To begin with, there is the fascination of watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail of frame but stout of heart, Lieberman is one of those movie character roles that the great actor visibly enjoys doing...