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...Mario Cuomo, running as the Liberal Party candidate, 50% to 42% (the Republican candidate got only 4%). Another big New York winner was Carol Bellamy, 35, an obscure but personable and articulate state senator who received 82% of the vote for city council president; she is an attractive political comer...
...Another comer is Cal Vainstein, 46, also a New York transplant, whose New Hero line features drawstring pants, caftans and other casual clothes, like a $47 hot-pink jumpsuit with harem pants and a neckline plunging to the waist. New Hero expects to earn more than $2 million this year...
...dream of both life and death. Stage Director Dexter can take credit for that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues is one of the few masterpieces of 20th century opera...
...potluck suppers with the school staff. Some 25 parents assist teachers in the school for 10 hours a week at $2.56 an hour. The program involves other expenditures for a Yale social worker and four special consultants. In all, it costs $35,000 a year. Says Dr. James Comer, the Yale psychiatrist who launched the program: "If the money isn't spent at the school level, it will ultimately be spent in far greater amounts to cope with delinquency and crime...
Bearded and brash, Hinds, 47, is a comer from way back. At ten he was sent to a reformatory as a truant. A varsity boxer at the University of Wisconsin, he later taught art. In 1958 he began selling life insurance in Madison, Wis.; fifteen years later, he had sold $20 million in term policies-the highest tally in the land...