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Leader Peres, 57, is a careful pragmatist given to governing through well-wrought political alliances rather than by dint of personality. A protégé of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founder and first Prime Minister, Peres got started in politics as a youth and by 1974 had risen to become Defense Minister. In a recent interview with TIME, Peres outlined his plan to deal with Israel's economic crisis. He said that his first priority would be to slash funds for settlements in the occupied Arab territories. Next he would try to obtain an agreement among...
...reading of his half-baked theories about life. When he sprinkles occasional bits of dialogue among the pontifications about "stimuli deprivation" and "the inner self," he displays a mastery of conversation a la soap opera; "I've got to be alone," says he. Perhaps Chayefsky knew what he had wrought, when, after a vintage Hollywood pissing contest with director Russell, he took his name off the credits as screenwriter. All it says is "From a novel by Paddy Chayefsky," which, incidently, is said to be even worse than the movie...
...voices were raised in song. There were gasps of wonder as visitors to the California Museum of Science in Los Angeles came upon a cluster of eight fantastic gilded angels, each 28 ft. tall and cunningly wrought out of glass, steel, bits of tapestry and even animal bones. The angels, created by Sculptor Tony Duquette and illuminated by hundreds of flickering votive candles, helped commemorate the 200th anniversary of the City of Angels...
...operation, semi-industrialized Third World countries will be favored over those which need assistance most. And in those countries targeted by Western enterprise, industrial elites will benefit unduly. Unlike the original Marshall Plan, Muller's cannot afford to ignore the social consequences of its operation: the desperation and instability wrought by increasing income inequality in the less-developed world...
...systematic devastation wrought by the Cultural Revolution-ten years of schools and colleges closed down, intellectuals imprisoned or sent to work on farms, cultural treasures of the past destroyed, all technological progress halted was obviously too sweeping to be the work of just four people...