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...that end, the country's intellectuals are hardly as powerless as many claim to be. The U.S. still heeds the individual social critic who builds a powerful case. Michael Harrington's The Other America, for instance, was a key impetus for the poverty program. Other effective reformers abound-James Bryant Conant, John Gardner, Ralph Nader, Saul Alinsky and Daniel Moynihan, to cite a few. And who ever dreamed that Eugene McCarthy would do so well in the New Hampshire primary...
Uncertainties abound in the publishing business, but one fact seems tantalizingly obvious: there are millions of potential readers for publications aimed at the 18-to-25 age bracket. But how to reach them? One method is to hire professionals to turn out smooth articles in hip lingo in a psychedelic or Art Nouveau layout ("Talking to kids in their own language," it's called). Cheetah and Eye magazines tried that - and folded...
Though problems of poverty and illiteracy still abound, the army-backed government has succeeded in containing Brazil's worst economic enemy, inflation, which previously ate up wages before they could be spent. Now, tough monetary policies have cut the inflationary rate from 87% in 1964 to an almost bearable 24% last year, and the situation continues to improve...
Spindly Siren. Today, of course, Diahann is the star of her own highly successful TV series, Julia. Black faces abound in ads and TV commercials; TV advertisers seem to have made it a rule of thumb that if three models in an ad are white, the fourth must be black. The breakthrough in fashion modeling has been more remarkable and, at the same time, less dutiful. Three years ago, a spindly siren from Detroit named Donyale Luna stalked onto the fashion scene and became an overnight success: In one whirlwind year she posed for Harper's Bazaar, Paris Match...
...with the funny hats and all, that don't train and just run for a fraternity stunt," gripes Jock Semple, giant of Boston distance running and head of the Boston Marathon. There are usually about 1000 entrants in the scenic 26-mile tour of the western suburbs, and turkeys abound...