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...many doctors are unconvinced by the blitz. The Medical Letter, a highly regarded bulletin for physicians, notes that in one published study of 66 obese patients, the greatest weight loss was achieved not by anyone on PPA but by someone who had been given a placebo. Says Letter Consulting Editor Dr. Martin Rizack: "If somebody really wants to lose weight, you can give them almost anything and probably get an effect...
Despite all the problems, there remains a strong optimism about leadership. Followers persist in the belief that crises produce leaders, in the way that the blitz produced Churchill. But obviously, leadership does not arise automatically, mystically, from need. The Hittites and Mayas went into crisis, and no leaders could rescue them from their extinction. The Black Death swept across the 14th century, and nobody came forward to lead men out of their chaotic misery...
...call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan had a 19% lead over his Tory rival in popularity and that up to one-fifth of the electorate was undecided. Among those uncertain voters were millions of working-class housewives, who were Thatcher's prime target on her electoral blitz...
There are two basic ways to get a new musical act lots of publicity (well, three, but putting rock reviewers on the company payroll is usually not discussed in polite company). One way is to perform free before lots of people; the other is a high-powered media blitz and publicity hype that attempts to stampede the reviewer into writing up the star-to-be before everyone else does and he loses his scoop...
...that the Met's budgetary troubles have forced a reevaluation of the national tour. It might once have been a luxury that helped bring the Met closer to the national audiences gathered around radios every Saturday afternoon to hear opera broadcasts; it has become--along with the opera blitz on public television--a critical part of the Met's campaign to raise money across the country...