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There are really two sides to the Chapman coin. Heads, he looks down his nose at the Loeb; tails, he's a slightly discriminating perfectionist. "People don't ask him to rehearsals because they are afraid he would sneer," says one HDC member. "If he can't do a show exactly right, he can't bear to do it," says another. "He's kind of a snob. He won't do a show that would be compromised from the beginning...
...defender, Camp did an utterly unprecedented thing: in desperation, he flung the football down the field. Thompson somehow grabbed it and scampered for a touchdown. "Foul! Foul!" screamed the outraged Princeton team. The bewildered referee settled the ensuing rhubarb the only way he could think of. He flipped a coin, Yale won the toss-and the forward pass was born...
...longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule, he declared: "For over seven decades, your nation and mine have...
Courtly as he is, Bing never stands on ceremony. In his dealings with singers, he trades on intuition, whether it is in negotiating a $3,000 difference in salary with Richard Tucker by flipping a coin (Bing won) or in putting Birgit Nilsson at ease before a performance by bursting into her dressing room wearing a Beatle wig (Nilsson screeched). The unexpected, the outrageous are among his chief weapons. On a recent tour in Cleveland, Bing desperately wanted to persuade an exhausted Franco Corelli to substitute for an ailing tenor. He went to Corelli's hotel, got his room...
...coin shortage? Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo blames it mostly on the increasing number of vending machines and on foreign tourists who, whether souvenir collecting or through negligence, leave the country with pockets ajangle with lire. The worst offender is undoubtedly the ordinary Italian. Still not confident about the long-range future of his country's economy, he is hoarding coins against the day when paper money loses its value. As one result, the piggy bank has become one of the hottest items in Italian stores...