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...after blacks broke into the mainstream and could play larger houses for larger fees, the Apollo declined. In 1976 it closed and lapsed into the realm of remembrance, like vaudeville at the Palace or P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas at the Hippodrome. Now it has been opened again by black businessmen, led by former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, who plan to install a state-of-the-art video center so the shows can be recorded for TV distribution...
...summer wage of $2.50 an hour instead of the regular $3.35 minimum wage. In his first major speech as Labor Secretary, William Brock last week promoted the President's plan for a summer-long subminimum wage for young people. The Administration claims that it would reduce costs for businessmen and inspire them to hire some 400,000 more workers...
...burden. Says Jesse Rhone, an office manager for the Texas employment commission: "Until the private sector assumes greater responsibility to employ these youths, the problem is not going to go away." Chicago Mayor Harold Washington will soon appear in local TV and radio ads in which he implores businessmen to "hire the future." In New York City, Metropolitan Life Insurance has taken charge of a proj-ect in which companies will employ 30,000 youths this summer in exchange for federal income tax credits...
...disillusionment with religion--forever associated with a cold father more interested in following holy men than his family--and from her husband, Michael. The scion of a wealthy New England family, Michael Chandal abandoned riches for rags when, as a youth, he witnessed the murder of union organizers by businessmen. The two meet in New York and pledge themselves to the building of a better world as Michael works as a journalist for a left-wing paper and Anne does social work...
...speech last week, Nakasone seemed to be trying to sidestep the bureaucracy with a direct appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...