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While New West has been floundering for a beachhead-it has sharply increased its proportion of service-oriented features -L.A. has steadily tightened its hold on the turf. Under Editor Geoff Miller it has spiced how-where-what consumerism with monthly contributions by such luminaries as Joyce Haber (The Users), who can be a sharp social observer as well as the town's top gossipist, and acerbic Movie Critic John Barbour-along with some of the shrewdest assessments of food, wine and film of any city magazine...
After an unsuccessful bid to buy the Sunday Observer, Goldsmith established a beachhead in British journalism last January by paying Press Baron Rupert Murdoch $3 million for 35% of the non-voting shares in London's Beaverbrook newspaper chain, which includes the ailing daily Express. Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Now Sir Jimmy has struck at the other end of his London-Paris axis: for $6 million he has purchased a 45% share in L'Express, France's largest newsweekly. The magazine's founder, gadfly Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and his family will retain...
...solution is to concede that Calcutta may not have been so elegantly erotic, after all. Carte Blanche, says Tynan, "is a more ambitious show than Calcutta, which had inevitable crudities and had to be more aggressive because it was trying to establish a beachhead." This time he has sought "elegant candor." In lieu of such Calcutta concerns as masturbation, rape and wife swapping, what would Carte Blanche offer...
FIRE ANTS. All kinds of bugs thrive in the warm, humid climate prevalent in much of the South. But none have achieved more notoriety than the fire ant, a South American invader that gained a beachhead in New Orleans in 1918 and has since advanced through nine Southern states. The ants, as their name implies, have searing bites that can kill small animals and raise painful blisters on humans. Farm workers often refuse to enter fields infested with fire ant mounds, which often rise two or three feet above the ground and are sturdy enough to stop a tractor...
...parties are less fierce than continuing an almost mortal combat between the White House and the CIA. The dark deed that makes the plot boil, in fact, is a political murder, secretly ordered by Democratic President William Arthur Curry and carried out by the CIA on a Latin American beachhead (here called Rio de Muerte) easily identifiable as the Bay of Pigs...