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...Angeles to court support in Louisiana: "This is a campaign that emerges as it flows forward, and each day I'll assess what the realistic possibilities are ... It's hard to tell just what all this means." Then he accused Carter of "all of a sudden doing a flip-flop" because he had accepted endorsements from Wallace and Daley. Asked recently whom he would vote for in November if he were not a candidate, Brown said laconically: "Oh, I don't know. I might not vote at all." Frank Mankiewicz, a Carter fan, cracked that Jerry Brown's performance...
Bourke's law explains the big surprise of 1976: the sales flop of the once-vaunted subcompacts. Detroit invested heavily in these small, $2,900-to-$3,400 cars as an answer to the import threat. Imports have indeed been suffering this year; their share of the U.S. auto market, more than 18% last year, has skidded below 14% so far in 1976. But the foreign makes have been hurt more by their own rising price tags than by any bumper-to-bumper competition from their U.S. rivals. American subcompacts, which captured 10% of the U.S. auto market following...
Heavy spending, of course, no more guarantees success now than it did in the 1960s. Fox's $12 million Lucky Lady, starring Liza Minnelli, has been an utter flop that contributed heavily to the studio's first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors...
...closed after seven performances (TIME, May 17), probably the most costly flop-in terms of tarnished reputations as well as money-in White Way history. What went wrong...
This revision resulted in a complete flip-flop of Mather's ranking in what has become the House crowding standings. According to the new adjusted figures, Mather appears to be the most crowded House...