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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even on Friday night−payday−there's not much to enjoy in Soweto. Into a 35-sq.-mi. area are packed perhaps a million people−650,000 by official count−and life is hard and bleak. Soweto is Johannesburg's Harlem, a black ghetto that has sprawled into the country's fourth largest city...
...will be 70 next month, has no previous political experience, raised far less money than his main rivals, could not afford television commercials, has a rambling speaking style, and sometimes seems so becalmed that he is said to wink by opening one eye. Because such conventional debits count for little in this eccentric campaign year, S.I. (for Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa last week won the Republican Senate nomination in California...
...denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least 20 men, by one count, headed toward the restaurant's back door, apparently dreading signs of recognition...
...cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars, such as Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, to draw the crowds. Unlike other early movie magnates, Zukor avoided both Hollywood and histrionics, preferring to manage his burgeoning entertainment empire from New York, where he ran Paramount until he retired...
...music, ar ranged and conducted by John Lanch-berry, sounds like a serious ensemble rather than the pickup assortment that often accompanies dance. The Australians are a very handsome company. The girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around in reckless waltzes or flinging her high with one-arm lifts. Meehan will never be the partner Help mann was, but he embodies the insouciance that...