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...from the Honey Lake Country Club. High-rise apartment buildings tower above newly created avenues, and a 48-story trade center is nearing completion. Scores of foreign-owned operations, including those of such giants as PepsiCo, Citibank and Sanyo, have streamed into the area, where a decidedly unsocialist billboard exhorts, TIME IS MONEY! EFFICIENCY IS LIFE! In the midst of those developments, many peasant families own three-story houses furnished with stereo systems, refrigerators and color TVs (sometimes two per family so that parents can watch one program and children another). When Deng Xiaoping, 79, China's de facto leader...
...sure how many programs actually exist; estimates range from 8,000 to 40,000. In fact, a mini-industry has grown up to keep track of the titles. Stewart Brand, the counterculture publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, will come out with the Whole Earth Software Catalog this fall. Billboard magazine charts the progress of hot-selling software just the way it does that of Michael Jackson records...
...been laid: Footloose the movie was the nation's top-grossing film for the first three weeks of its release and has earned $38 million at the box office so far; Footloose the album, with sales of more than a million, is currently No. 5 on the Billboard charts; and Footloose the single is No. 4. Of such stuff are multimedia successes made...
...MGM/UA home video division, which has sold 50,000 copies of Poltergeist at $79.95: "To make a decent return on your investment, the number of units you have to move at $39.95 is phenomenal." RCA/Columbia, which also charges $79.95, has two tapes in the Top Ten on Billboard's bestsellers chart: Blue Thunder (3) and Gandhi...
...Houston recalls the spark of its demolition as the 1980 firing of Country Coach Bum Phillips, whose fame, in the opinion of Owner Bud Adams, had become excessive. When the prairie was in fashion, Phillips was both Will Rogers and the Marlboro man come to life. On every other billboard in Houston, he recommended pointy-toed boots made out of everything from ostriches to anteaters to dead dogs in the road...