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...CARL-HENRIC SVANBERG, Ericsson CEO, threatening to leave Sweden if its voters reject the euro this month
...free. Many pay for everyone elses freedoms and rights while the vast majority sit back, enjoy the benefit of others' sacrifice and complain when things don't go as they would like. No college deferments or the like, go to school before or after you do your share! Carl Bogdon New Jersey...
...money to be made marketing to the nearly 39 million Latinos who represent the U.S.'s single largest minority group. This year Chica's sales are projected to reach $2 million--double last year's. Similarly, the Vato line of Latin tops is in "constant reorder mode," according to Carl Dias, the women's buyer for L.A.'s Traffic boutique...
DIED. SAM PHILLIPS, 80, prime impresario of rock 'n' roll; of respiratory failure, in Memphis, Tenn. In the '50s Phillips' Sun Records in Memphis was the home of raw genius, both black (Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King) and redneck (Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and that holy hellion of rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis). One day an 18-year-old Elvis Presley went to Sun's studio to record two songs for his mother and was soon vamping on the Arthur Crudup tune That's All Right. Phillips legendarily remarked, "That's a pop song, just 'bout...
...Thomas to give Larry, then 16, a shot writing comedy. Gelbart, who has called writing "the perfect medium for shy extroverts," was soon a scribe for Jack Paar, Red Buttons and Bob Hope. As a writer on the legendary Caesar's Hour, Gelbart "popped jokes like popcorn," recalls colleague Carl Reiner. "Once Sid [Caesar] got a call from Bob Hope, offering an oil well to get Larry back...