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...British-born Costello may look a bit like Woody Allen with a guitar, but there is nothing timid about his music. With a three-piece band behind him, he blasts out a stream of riffs that recalls the piston rhythms of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock...
...very strong in football," noted Frank H.T. Rhodes, considering Cornell University's door mat status on the gridiron this season. "But we're very good at Frisbee." The British-born geologist, who this week will be formally inaugurated as Cornell's president, may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter. "The great universities are those in which people grow by contact with others in ever-widening circles," insisted Rhodes, 51, after suiting up in his new Cornell colors to throw the old platter around...
...beautiful, lovely country," both of them assured him. Then a question was put to them by a British-born Ugandan citizen who is the President's adviser on British affairs, Mr. Bob Astles, known in Uganda as "Mr. Bob." He asked: "What do you think about President Carter's criticisms of Uganda and our President...
...speakers aren't really Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Diana Rigg and Tony Britton just sound like them in an upcoming BBC comedy skit wickedly titled "Public Lives." The Liz-Dick nuptial parody is part of a six-week series starring the British-born Rigg, 38, who also plays English Actress Celia Johnson in the 1946 movie Brief Encounter. Rigg is especially proud of her transformation into Taylor. Says she: "I did the major makeup work myself. The black wig, the beauty spot-and showing off the cleavage...
...immediate cause of the postcolonial drama at Sime Darby was a disagreement over appointments to fill three vacancies on the twelve-member board last November. Chairman James Bywater, a British-born engineer who was a relative newcomer to Malaysia, insisted that three British members of his management team be nominated for the board. But a big Sime Darby stockholder, the government-controlled Pernas, a trading company with capital of $200 million, was just as adamant in pushing three Asian candidates of its own. Pernas had clout: it publicly admitted holding 8.5% of Sime Darby's stock, but may have...