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...belle of the pop world. Bobbie's theme song, bursting on the scene in July, made all sorts of promises that this album doesn't keep. The trouble is that Bobbie must improve on Billy, admittedly a masterpiece but not enough of one to cinch the revolution in pop music that it portends. In any case, it is dangerous to underrate Bobbie Gentry, and her initial album might well qualify as a collector's item...
Command changes at major banks are usually about as suspenseful as tomorrow's office hours. But not at Manhattan's aggressive First National City Bank. President George S. Moore, 62, was a cinch to succeed Chairman James Stillman Rockefeller, due to retire next month at 65. But who would follow Moore? There was no lack of topflight candidates, as is only fitting for the bank that, with assets of $15 billion, ranks only behind the Bank of America ($18 billion) and Chase Manhattan ($15.8 billion). Moore himself had been no help in the guessing game, having once said...
...knew what he was promoting thoroughly and was apparently able to persuade people. Romney the politician and presidential aspirant must sell his record, his ideas, and himself. The last two are not easy to promote, even for the master of public relations, but his record is a near cinch...
...where the show closed last month after a seven-week run, 85,430 visitors came to see it; thousands of others turned away only when they saw the lines outside. With seven weeks to go at the Whitney, and six at Chicago's Art Institute, Wyeth seems a cinch to beat the U.S. attendance record for a living artist, now held by Pablo Picasso, whose 75th-birthday showing at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art drew 328,206 visitors in 16 weeks in 1957.* Before the Whitney opening last week, Wyeth trekked up from his native Chadds Ford...
...mechanical engineer who put her on skis at the age of three, Nancy competed in the 1960 Olympics when she was 16, finished an unimpressive 22nd in the downhill. By 1964 at Innsbruck, she was up to 7th in the downhill. At Portillo last year, she was rated a cinch for a gold medal, after beating everybody in practice. Then, in the downhill, she slammed into a snow-packed retaining wall at 60 m.p.h., badly bruising her right arm. "She couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep...