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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Saturday, May 12, 1979 Japanese Buyers Reject Rubenstein FUtnTwo New Thrillers hfA- iter nkmi A been unable to turn it into a consistent moneymaker. In an interview, Vail said Rubenstein lost a substantial amount last year and said the losses increased in the first quarter of this year. He declined to give numbers, but one analyst estimated the company lost $3 million on sales of $200 million in 1978. "Our problem is in the department stores. We were profitable in drug stores," Vail said.

Rubenstein in 1977 introduced an expensive system involving placing computers in department stores to advise women on what cosmetics they should use. Sales have been disappointing. "They thought they could run Rubenstein more like a traditional soft-goods company," said one analyst, who asked not to be named. "It didn't work." Colgate is a leader in such fields as toothpaste and detergents. If Colgate decides to sell Rubenstein, it might turn to L'Oreal, a French cosmetics maker.

Talks with that company were broken off early this year after L'Oreal reportedly said it would not pay more than $60 million for Rubenstein. NEW YORK (AP) Colgate-Palmolive Co. won't be able to sell its money-losing Helena Rubenstein subsidiary to a Japanese soap company, it was announced Friday. The announcement leaves Colgate with the choice of trying to find another buyer for the once-profitable cosmetic company or of trying again to make the company profitable. Colgate and Kao Soap a large Japanese detergent and household products manufacturer, announced April 6 they had agreed Kao would acquire Helena Rubenstein Inc.

for $75 million. But Friday they said they were unable to reach a final agreement. No details were given. We're going to conduct an in-depth study and we will announce in several weeks what we will do with Helena Rubenstein," said Colgate Vice President Richard J. Vail.

Helena Rubenstein had acquired an impressive reputation as a high quality maker of cosmetics before it was acquired by Colgate in 1973. But problems had already appeared after the death of the founder, and Colgate has A record was set last weekend when four sets of twins were born at Albert Einstein Medical Center's Northern Division in Philadelphia. Shown with their twins are, from left, mothers Vera Purnell, Pricilla Morris, Bernice Edwards and Teressa Smith. Usually only two sets of twins are among the 220 babies delivered at the hospital each month (AP). Possible Cause of Worker Ills At Plant Examined ''hi Twins Galore "Our concern is whether or not there is a connection.

If there is, we want to make sure a substitute is found so we don't have to work under those hazardous conditions. We'd also want compensation for those facing huge medical bills," Gilbert said. Gilbert said once they suspected a link, the lodge's safety representative confronted company officials but the company denied it had any information on the safe handling of the substance. "But warning labels on original boxes of Cerrobend in the plant had been re-, moved," Gilbert said. Gilbert said the company was invited to participate in the medical study, but that it! refused.

Attorneys Clash In Landfill Case Pratt Whitney spokeswoman Doris Hall said the company could not comment until it had reviewed the results of the study. Gilbert, who called Cerrobend a possible "silent killer," said the lodge initiated its study last winter after several employes said their private physicians had diagnosed an overexposure to cadmium, one of four alloys that make up Cerrobend. Overexposure to cadmium affects mainly the lungs and kidneys and may lead to emphysema and kidney disease over a period of years, Gilbert said. "And then the workers went to plant medical where they were told not to worry, they had colds," Gilbert said. Price Leap Seen For Heating Oil 27 his playing of a bank teller who foils a twisted hold-up man, played with Barry-more-like bravura by Christopher Plummer.

But the writing and directing of Plummer's character undoes the film's more subtle touches; he has been made an ultra-violent sadist, and frankly it's stomach-turning even for a seasoned watcher of movie mayhem. The savage beating of one woman and the decapitation in an especially grisly manner of co-star Celine Lomez are simply too much. Susannah York fares better as a romantic bank employe who' learns that certain kinds of white-collar crimes can pay in this sometimes gruesome film's happy, bloody ending. Both films are rated be-, cause both contain generous amounts of nudity and violence although what happens in "Last Embrace" is" merely a little kinky compared to the post-Peckinpah grand guignol in "The Silent Partner." "Last Embrace" is playing at Cinema City, Hartford, and the Elm, West Hartford. "The Silent Partner" is at Showcase Cinema, East Hartford.

MALCOLM L. JOHNSON theatres seller now cn tlsa screen! T0DAT Al 30-445 'OX POOR RICHARD'S PUB CINEMA Out with CLINT EASTWOOD Friday Saturday MIDNIGHT SHOW! 7:30 $1.50 9:30 Full Liquor License 569-1622 467 Main East Htfd. 1 M. So ot Htld Mosp 2SS frWIin awut nwwHIIIM CONT. SHOWINGS 2 to 11 Introducing SAMANTHA FOX "HERE THE BRIDE" ANNETTE HAVEN "SIH STOCKIHCS" (X) at 2 pm on SAT SUN JANE JOH VOIGHT FONDA BRUCE DEM 7pm 9 Coming Home amc Time, EienBuratyn Man Mda cxtlcar 7W9 30 NOW THRU TUESDAY "THE CHINA SYNDROME" DaHf :30 lat-twi.

2, 4:19, ALL IE Alt "HARDCORE" EVES. AT 7 ft 9 MATS. SAT. SUN. AT 2 ICA1TC4 ViUAtE CIHEMA fa C0NT- sX 1:00 7i "ii Scheider, always a strong actor, does his best with all this.

He even has one scene that comes close to brilliance, when he recalls the horror of his wife's murder. And Janet Margolin and John Glover are also effective as the subletting love interest and the Princeton Biblical scholar. (Christopher Walken is foolishly miscast as a CIA type.) Demme displays an intriguing visual style, with his roving, curious camera eye, and Miklos Rozsa has contributed a nerve-tingling score in the Hitchcock manner, but it all comes apart well before the end despite a "North by Northwest" climax at Niagara Falls. Just over the border, Toronto is the scene for "The Silent Partner," a Canadian reduction tautly directed Daryl Duke from a screenplay by Curtis Hanson. Duke makes good use of his Toronto locations from the modernistic bank where the action is cen-tered to neighborhoods that are both elegant and seedy.

He has also gotten a surprisingly good performance from Elliott Gould, who soft-peddles his goofy act in Tha routic smash best rV'Tft noMisr: to love each other next time they meet lie won even krowvvho she is. Mat Ml HiltfO TONIGHT 6 pm to Midnight WRCQ AM I 1 V' Or. 4 KAKKY BELAFCXTE al IntefngtiMal Ctmpaajy IUSHNEU MEM0IIAL ADD. Tonight 4 May 13th, I PM met pricac Orch. $12, let Sal.

$9, $11. 2nd Bat. $5. $7.50 Met tnUkj It la Win 1M latUiri Ihe Tmn if iu raETt wins A neWert ih MenWs Day CIIDIT CMD ORDERS (All 2464807 VISA MASTER CH1RCE If AT. SS 2 ra UTEif 7:15 PG in fffioL "Last Embrace" is a film you want to like, but ultimately it begins to choke on its improbabilities.

"The Silent Partner," another new thriller, is more successful in what it sets out to do, but its penchant for sadism makes it unlikeable to the point of repellence. One wishes "Last Embrace" well because Jonathan Demme, its young director, and Roy Scheider, its often star-crossed star, both work so painstakingly to make it succeed. For a while, Demme seems to have an apprentice's version of the Hitchcock touch, but unlike the master, he lets the script get the better of him. The screenplay that David Shaber has adapted from Murray Teigh Bloom's "The 13th Man," contains as many twisted plots as a Jacobean tragedy. One has to do with an ancient Jewish revenger, another with an unidentified CIA-like organization.

There is also madness, a vengeful brother-in-law, a love affair between a Princeton don and a Manhattan anthropologist, an elderly Jewish underground, and white slavery at the turn of the century. Obviously, it doesn't fit together all that well. Scheider is cast in what turns out to be an even more thankless role than his sher iff's reprise in "Jaws 2" as a recent breakdown victim who returns to Manhattan to find that someone is trying to get him. At first, he thinks it's probably his bosses, who work out of a drab secret headquarters full of paper shredders and malevolence. Then he gets a piece of paper from the woman who has sublet his apartment; on it are Hebrew letters a curse going back to the First Temple and some less decipherable references.

Who is trying to get him, after all? At first, the answer seems to be almost everyone; then it seems like no one at all really. Beach To Speak To Salvation Army Morrison H. Beach, chairman and chief executive officer of The Travelers will be the guest speaker Monday at the annual lunch eon of the Salvation Army Advisory Board of Hartford. The noon luncheon will be held at the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Hartford Hotel. FILM RATING GUIDE For Parents and Their Children OENIMLAUMINCU 1 AHAaftAdmimd PARENTAL 8U DANCI suoaoTfo MelerM MevNM Be SunatiliFgrPre-Tliiaiiri li MSTMCTID Under 17 ml Pawn! or Adult Guanllan no out unom AOkarm (AaaNnrl may very In oortaift amea) MPAA Starrs College Theater-Love At First Bite 2, 4:15, 6:30,9.

Tarringten Parkade Deer Hunter 7, IOI5. Warner Love At First Bile 2, 7,9. Walllngford Center Fast Break 730. The Buddy Holly Story 9:30. Waterbury Cinema The Deer Hunter 1, 4:30, 1:15.

Manhattan 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:15. Down 1. 3, 5, 7:15, Promise 1:15, 3:15, 5, 7,9. West Springfield Showcase Cinemas Coming Home 2, 4:30, 7:15,9:50, 12:15. The Silent Partner 2:30, 4:45, 7:30, 9:45, Syndrome 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40, 12.

Halloween 2, 4, 5:45, 7:40, 9:40, 11:40. The Champ 2, 4:45, Hunter 130, 70S, 10:30. The Promise 130, 3:30, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50, Pryor 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 1 130. DRIVE-INS Berlin School Girl Reunion 1:15, 17:00. Water-power Intimate Playmates 9:30.

East Wind ser Every Which Way Bui Loose 1:15, The Gauntlet lft Farmlngten-Casey's Shadow 1:20. Midnight Express 1035. Hartford Gauntlet 1:15. Every Which Wav But Loose 1030. Manchester Oracula's Dog Tourist Trap 930.

Blood Mania 11. Mansfield Every Which Wav Bui Loose, Corvette Summer Pike Oracula's Dog I. Tourist Trap 930. Blood Mania II. Plamvllte The Gauntlet 1:15.

Every Which Wav But Loose 10:15. Portland Thank God Irs Friday 1:15. Midnight Express 10. Regers-Everv Which Way But Loose 1:30. Comes A Horseman 1030.

Seumingten The Gauntlet 1:15. Every Which Way But Loose 10:15. Watertewn-The Gauntlet 1:15. Every Which Way Bui Loose 10:15. Eaten Alive 1:10.

Pirrana 10. Corvette Summer 1:15. Faslbreak 10. (Schedules are published as received from the theaters. The Courant is not responsible tar last-minute changes tr Incomplete (X) ByDICKLEHR Union officials representing workers at the North Haven plant of Pratt Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technologies Corp.

have enlisted Yale-New Haven Hospital doctors to study whether the company's use of Cerrobend is responsible for workers' health problems. The president of International Association of Machinists Lodge 707, Wayne Gilbert, said Friday the doctors are examining workers to see if coughing, nausea, and lung soreness have possibly resulted from overexposure to Cerrobend. Cerrobend is the trade name for a lead-like sub stance used for holding parts in a fixture before it is ma chined, Gilbert said. He said the company has used the substance for years. Magazine Gets Staff Shakeup FAIRFIELD Connecticut Magazine has replaced its publisher and editor in a major shakeup of its staff.

Publisher John Caldwell who quit recently, reportedly after a dispute with the monthly's owners, has been replaced by Peter C. Scheyhing, formerly associate publisher. 1 After Scheying's promotion, editor Faith Middleton resigned. Beth Conover, formerly managing editor, has been named editor-in-chief. Charles Monagan, formerly an associate editor, has been named editor.

Asked, what led to the shakeup, Scheying' said, "Nothing particularly special. Just an internal change. There's no story there." He has been with the magazine since April 1975. No significant changes are planned, he said, except "to put, hopefully, more resources into the improvement of the editorial content." Connecticut Magazine, which has a circulation of about 60,000, is owned by Dan W. Lufkin, former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, and several other investors.

Caldwell, who couldn't be reached for comment, ap- fiarently wasn't planning to eave the magazine. In a note in the current issue, he said, "Have a nice May. See you next month with some very nice surprises." AdTrtiimtnt By ROSEMARY KEOGH Tempers flared and lawyers engaged in a shouting match over a line of questioning pursued Friday in the case brought by a Newington trash-hauling firm against the state Department of Environmental Protection. M. Donald Cardwell, attorney for the plaintiff, Reduction Associates was questioning witnesses on the permits and operations of the $53 million waste processing plant planned for Bridgeport.

Assistant Attorney General Alan M. Kosloff charged that Cardwell was pursuing the matter "to cover up for his client's incompetence." He added that Cardwell's clients in this case "are slobs and have always been slobs." Cardwell responded angri- Help Sought In Shift of Economic Base The Courant Bureau WASHINGTON The House Public Works and Transportation Committee unanimously adopted an amendment this week to help defense-dependent communities diversify their economies. The bill resembles a portion of legislation introduced by Rep. Christopher J. Dodd, D-2nd District.

Under the economic diversification bill, the Economic Development Administration would recognize the special needs and problems of defense-dependent communities and would then develop guidelines to assist these areas. Assistance would in clude development grants, technical advice and loan programs. Rep. James L. Oberstar, introduced the amendment on Dodd's behalf before the 47-member panel.

The vote represents the first time any congressional body has acted on economic diversification for military dependent communities, a i Dodd aide said. The bill now will go to the House floor. AdTrtUtmnt ly that he wanted to go on record as objecting strenuously to Kosloff 's statements. Double Standard Argued Cardwell said he was attempting to prove that the state has a double standard in issuing permits for solid-waste facilities. Both men apologized, with Kosloff adding, "This is not the place to posturize." Superior Court Judge William Graham urged the men to "calm yourselves," adding that he would place them on opposite sides of the room if the arguing continued.

Reduction is seeking to order DEP Commissioner Stanley J. Pac to provide an alternative for dumping in the wake of the March closing of the Rocky Hill landfill. State law requires the DEP to provide a "reasonable alternative" before it can close a landfill. The firm contends that the East Windsor landfill, where it is dumping, is not reasonable, and claims that the Colchester landfill, which it owns, is the only reasonable site. Kosloff contended that Cardwell couldn't compare the Bridgeport facility with Reduction's baling operation in Colchester because "you can't compare apples and oranges just because they're both fruit." Russell L.

Brenneman, president of the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, which is building the Bridgeport plant, said the DEP has granted the authro-ity permission to build and test the plant without formal operational permits. Selectman Testifies Also testifying was East Windsor First Selectman Edward J. Hastillo, who said his town may take legal action to stop the DEP from allowing garbage from New Haven and Hamden to be dumped at the East Windsor landfill. He said the town is taking steps to guarantee that the contract limit of 40 trucks per day entering the landfill is enforced. The case will enter its fifth day when it resumes Wednesday morning at 10.

AdYrtUmnt The Courant Bureau WASHINGTON A study by the New England Economic Research Office predicted Friday that home heating oil prices may soar as high as 90 cents per gallon next winter unless the government acts soon. The study, requested by Rep. Toby Moffett, D-6th District, and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, also warned that home heating oil supplies may be low and difficult to obtain "regardless of price." "While we in New England are disproportionately dependent on distillate for heating our homes," said the report, "we consumed only 10 percent of the nation's total supply in 1977.

The rest of the East Coast consumed 34 percent, the Midwest, 30 percent and the West Coast 10 percent in 1977." This is clearly not just a local, regional problem but a major national economic one," said the study. The Moffett-Javits study, which included a series of spot checks on prices, also disclosed that Connecticut already is paying the second highest home heating oil prices in the six-state New England area. Spot checks in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Portland and Bridgeport showed a statewide average price for home heating oil as of May 1 at 67.4 cents per gallon, the study reported. Only Vermont, with spot checks in Burlington, showed a higher price, 67.9 cents per gallon. Massachusetts is averaging 65.6 cents per gallon; Maine 63.9 cents; New Advertisement Hampshire, 65.4 cents, and Rhode Island, 65.9 cents.

In Connecticut, Waterbury had the highest price, 69.9 cents per gallon. New Haven was next at 68.9 cents; Hartford, 66.9 cents; Portland, 65.9 cents, and Bridgeport, 65.4 cents. Moffett, commenting on the study, charged that part of the problem is the failure of the Energy Department "to get tough with the oil refiners and tell them to produce more heating oil." IN AND NEAR HARTFORD HirKord Art Cintmi Here Comet Ihe Bride 335, 6:30 MO. Si Stockings 2:05, 5, Atheneum Your Turn, My Turn 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. Cineitudie Goto" South 7:30.

Heaven Can Wait 9:25. Cinema CItv-Clrcle of Iron 2:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:10. Norms Rae 2:15, 4:30, 7, Embrace 2, 4, 7, 9. Com Home 2, 4:30, 7:15, WO. Celonlat Last Challenge ol Ihe Dragon, The Thunderklck continuous from 1.

Webster Pretty Peaches, Coming of Angels continuous from I. Avon Park 1 4 2 Superman 4:30, Hurricane 7:15,9:20. Twin 1 4 2-Comlng Home 2, 7, 15. Same Time Next Year 2, 7:15, 9 JO. Berlin Cine I 2-Same Time Next Year 2, 7:05.

9:15. -Hurricane 130,7:20,9:30. Bleemtield Malt-California Suite 2, 7, 9. East Hartford Bumside I California Suite 1, 3:15, 7, 9:15. Every Which Way Bui Loose 1:15, 3:30, 7:15, 00.

Cinema One Hardcore 2, 7, 9. PeorRichard't Every Which Way But Loose 7:30, 9:30, 12. Showcase Cinemas Manhattan 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 9:45, 1 1:45. Love At First Bite 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 1, 10, Pryor 1:50, 3:45, 5:20, 7:20, 1.55, 10:30, 12:05. Deer Hunter 1:30, 7:10, 10:30.

Silent Partner 1:25, 3:30, 5:35 7:50, 10, The Champ 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05, 12:20. Manchester UA Theaters East-Take Down 2, 4:15, 7:15, 9:15. 11:15. The Promise 2:30, 4:45, 7, 11. A Little Romance 9.

The Innocent 230, 5, 7:30, 9:40, 1 1:45. New Britain Palace-Airport Wives 1:30, 1:15. Belinda 2:40, 9:25. Newlngten Cinema 1,2 Take Down 1, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:20. The China Syndrome 1:45, 4:20, 9:30.

A Little Romance 7. The Innocent 130, 330, 5:30, 7:30, 9:40. Newington Every Which Way But Loose 2, 7, 30. Cine I a 2-Hurrlcane 130, 7:20, Time Next Year 2, 7:05, 9:15. West Hartford Central The Grateful Dead 12.

Elm I ft 2 Norma Rae 2:20, 430, 7, Last Embrace 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9: 10. The Movies The China Syndrome 10, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 11:30. A Little Romance 9. Take Down 1030, 1235, 2:40, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15, 1 1:11 The Innocent 10, 12, 1:55, 3:50. 5:45, 7:45, 9:45, 11:45.

Wettwrsfield Pans 1 2 Same Time Next Year 7:05, 9:15. Hurricane 730,930. Windsor Plaza Saturday Night Fever 2, 7:15, 9:15. "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? Psalms 2:1 and Acts 425 represent a cross-section of the national character, or lack of character. This usually determines the sort of men God puts in power over the people of the nation.

We read In Psalm 75:6,7: "FOR PROMOTION COMETH NEITHER FROM THE EAST, NOR FROM THE WEST, NOR FROM THE SOUTH. BUT GOD IS THE JUDGE: HE PUTTETH DOWN ONE, AND SETTETH UP ANOTHER." "All ye that fear God, give audience:" Are we not as nation in rebellion against The Lord God Omnipotent" and raging against just about all of His Holy Commandments? Crime Is coming In Uke a flood, and about to drown us! There I great rage against God's Commandments to HONOR PARENTS, TO ESTEEM LIFE, THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF EVERY MAN, THE POSSESSIONS, THE GOOD NAME, AND TO COVET NOTHING THAT BELONGS TO YOUR NEIGHBOR! Men and women who have the true "fear of The Lord" in their hearts, and are righteous In His sight, do more to protect a people, and procure peace and blessing to a land, than all their great statesmen, soldiers, and armaments! Therefore, "LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE, THAT MEN MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS, AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN!" The above question it the opening words of the Second Psalm ol God's Almighty Book, The Bible, making Himself known fo man. The sum of the Psalm adds up In the first few verses about as follows: The heathen are the kings, rulers, and the people of the earth who don't like God and His Commandments, rage against Him and His Annolnted, Jesus Christ, to get rid of their Laws of restraint: "Let us break their Bands asunder, and cast away their Cords from us." Jesus Christ came down from heaven and lived thirty-three years on earth, obeying God's Law perfectly. His life of perfect obedience so enraged the kings, rulers, and people that they gathered together against Him, condemned Him as not fit to live and nailed Him to The Cross one of the cruelest deaths ever devised! The Psalm warns the ragers of the "laughter and derision" of The Almighty at their folly, and then In mercy Invites them to submit to God's King and be blessed: "LEST HE BE ANGRY AND YE PERISH FROM THE WAY WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE!" Our nation is in Open rebellion against THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND FOREVER!" However, our rulers and those in authority during the past three or four decades should not bear all the blame, for they probably INOTHERTOWNS Bantam Cinema IV WHemistress 7, 1 Bristol Centre Mall 1 a 2-fce Castles 2, 7:15, ol the Body Snatchers 2, 7, t. Canton Village Cinema Hardcore 2, 7, 9.

Enfield Cinema-Pillow Party 230, 4:40, JO, Eye-bait 130, 3:40, 5:50. 1, 10. KtffSfnftM Cinema-The Warriors 730. 930. Merlden Mall I a 2-Take Down 1:15.

3:20. 535. 7:25, Mi-Halloween 130, 330, 5:30, 730, 93a Merlden Twin-Deer Hunter 1:45, 5. 130. China Syndrome 2.

430, 7:05, 935. Middletown Mevieheuse 1 a 2 California Suit 130, 7:15, US. Love At First Bite 130, 7,9. Sevttwngtea Showcase-The Great Train Robbery 7:15, 9:15. Oueen Plata Every Which Way But Loose 1, 3,7:15,9:05.

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