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Born. To Colonel Pavel Popovich, 38, Soviet cosmonaut, who became part of the world's first space duet in 1962 when his Vostok IV rocketed into orbit along with the capsule carrying Major Andrian Nikolayev; and Maria Popovich, 37, a civilian pilot: their second daughter; in Moscow...
Responsible for the magazine's bright new look is Managing Editor Alastair Burnet, a former television newsman who took over the Economist three years ago at the age of 36. Together with Art Director Peter Dunbar, 39, Burnet plots out each cover as a "duet" of picture and caption. Burnet's intent is to attract new readers "in the younger categories." In his three years as M.E., circulation has increased by 45% to 100,000 copies a week...
...mother sounds a note of caution in the impassioned duet, Bide Thee, Bubbles, in Brooklyn, but Beverly exits, resolutely waving her contract and singing Addio, West Side Subway...
...they are not even aware that many sets have tone-control knobs Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that occur when Carol Burnett drowns out Jack Jones in a duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads to such unnatural sights as lips out of gear or Joey...
...pilgrims gather for a fitting finale at the candlelit cathedral shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, and a choral reprise of the prioress' and the nun's earlier simple duet...