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...many versions of why all efforts to fix 1600 failed: Bernstein's score was more like an opera than a musical comedy; the show was racist; the chorus couldn't act; Corsaro botched the staging; the producers, not having put up the original money, didn't exert enough control; and so on. But almost everyone agreed that the overriding problem was Lerner's original idea. Says Ramin: "No amount of staging, acting, choreography or whatever was going to save the book...
...ladies who take pen in hand are not irresistibly attracted by the blue of my eyes," confessed Oil Tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who, after five wives, still receives marriage proposals by mail. "The magnetism I exert is of another color -green, the hue of my purported wealth." Small wonder. Getty, 83, in an introduction to his forthcoming autobiography, As I See It, estimates his net worth at well over $ 1 billion and that of his family at "about twice again as much." J.P. disclosed that to avoid the sort of inheritance scramble that followed the death of Fellow Billionaire Howard...
...basis"; little or no effort is made to provide the supportive counseling or job help that made the original Dole-Nyswander experiments at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center and Rockefeller University so successful. Even when treatment shows promise of working, Dole and Nyswander say, Government inspectors exert such strong pressure to get addicts off methadone that many are soon back on heroin-or buying black market methadone (at about $15 a dose...
...Some like to call the present transition a 'second spring,' " he observes. "I see it as an Indian summer, which comes just before winter." Biblical Scholar John A. Miles, writing in Theology Today, sees Catholics caught in a no-win situation. If the church does try to exert some kind of authority, chances are it will only cause further turmoil and shrinkage. If it does not, it may remain officially large but "steadily weaker and more diffuse...
...majority rule in South Africa. If black nations are to view Kissinger's new policy as more than a tactical maneuver, the U.S. must fully repudiate Vorster's regime. The U.S. government should force corporations to withdraw from South Africa, and to comply with international sanctions. It should also exert diplomatic pressure on the Vorster government to abandon its minority rule. If the U.S. fails to pursue such a program--as appears likely--black Africans will know it retains its generally racist perspective towards Africa, and Third World nations will continue to regard American policies and promises with justifiable suspicion...