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Victims of Illusion. By hitting Japan economically, where it is most sensitive (Japan's trade deficit was $1.4 billion last year), the Chinese Reds hope to stir up opposition to Premier Kishi and support for Peking-Tokyo trade. The Reds glibly dangle the bait of "600 million customers" before the eyes of Tokyo businessmen, although experience has shown that neither Communist China nor Japan has any great desire to buy the kind of consumer goods the other has to sell. Japanese businessmen also soon discover that they can deal only with state-owned Communist trading corporations rather than...
...membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians for his Guild by dangling the bait of extra income, and by the unsubstantiated charge that James C. Petrillo (who resigned as A.F.M. president last month) was using Performance Trust Funds to keep his favorites in office...
...federal entomologists ordered up all available spraying and poison-bait-spreading equipment for a cooperative federal, state and local property-owner field-by-field battle on hoppers, Colorado's Democratic Governor Steve McNichols led a delegation to Washington and urged stepped-up federal aid. (Colorado's legislature had refused to set up emergency funds for such disasters.) Warned McNichols: "They're crawling all over the land right now. If they take flight, the good Lord only knows where they...
...concert-management system for this state of affairs far more than they do the public. Between them, Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York, and the pay, when fees and traveling expenses are deducted, usually amounts to only several hundred dollars. An artist caught in the community-concert treadmill usually deserts the field after...
...standards, and they are exacting. He will not fish with a man he does not like, or with a man who will not try Tom Gifford's theories. One of them is that trolling is not the best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor. A lot of them say: 'Whatcha...