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...ATTENDED Peter Yarrow's second "first concert" last Sunday night. The first "first concert" at Symphony Hall in April 1972 marked Yarrow's debut as a solo folk singer following the breakup of Peter, Paul and Mary and a year of singing at voters' registration rallies and Democratic benefits. Last Sunday's concert testified to an incredible growth. By adapting his music to rock and to generally richer orchestration, Yarrow has regained his enormous performing charisma and redefined the tradition of which Peter, Paul and Mary were a part...
...people, the agreement will have far-reaching political consequences. Pakistan has pledged to recognize the independence of its former eastern wing, thereby clearing the way for Bangladesh to become a member of the U.N. some time this fall. Hopes are high that disputes over national debts incurred before the breakup can now be quickly resolved and that a mutually beneficial economic relationship between the countries can be reestablished. For its part, India is relieved of the $1,000,000-a-month burden of maintaining the prisoners...
...Antitrust Division has never been an object of affection in executive suites, and recently there has been less love lost than ever. Reason: it is seeking to shrink some of the nation's very biggest companies. In 1972 the division asked the federal courts to order a breakup of IBM. Now it is demanding that Goodyear and Firestone, two giants of the rubber industry, get rid of enough operations to make the tire business as competitive as it was in 1959-when Goodyear accounted for 23% of sales, against 28% now, and Firestone's share...
MAILER also has Monroe "winning her films," but the metaphor of the boxer wears thin by the end of the book. Perhaps the most insight is offered in the section on the making of The Misfits, which coincided with Monroe's breakup with Arthur Miller. Mailer here is able to offer his most credible insights into the nature of Miller's attraction to the uneducated woman and, hers to him in his failure to deal with her consumptive insecurity, congenital lateness, and the cancerous dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity...
...carving the empire into its functional parts-production, refining and marketing-Roberts says, "the Government split it along geographical lines, thus making every successor company vertically integrated." In fact, five of the charged firms -Exxon, Standard of Indiana, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield and Standard of California-were created by the breakup of Rockefeller's trust...