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Pepsi's Russian aficionados are experimenting with new ways to enjoy it -not all of which would fall in the health category. The latest rage-so new that it does not yet have a name-is a fifty-fifty mix of vodka and Pepsi in a tall glass. Hammer and Pepsickle...
...MADMAN who stands in front of the Pieta with a hammer in his pocket isn't alone in wanting to go down in history. Presidents can feel the urge with equally disastrous results. Richard Nixon's need to keep the tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when...
Does Mr. Schorr really believe that society is to blame for a ruthless and moody convict who told his attorney that he once avenged a friend by attacking another inmate with a hammer, leaving him paralyzed? Does Mr. Schorr sincerely feel that "Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime" when Gilmore by his own admission "didn't just kill him for the money"? "I just hate to be told what to do. It [the murder of the motel manager] was something that couldn't be stopped" (New York Times 11/15/76)--because, Mr. Schorr would have...
...million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation wars. His Sydney invasion literally touched off new fighting. When Murdoch outbid a rival publisher for an Anglican Church printing plant, the rival tried to occupy the building. Murdoch allies rounded up a gang of hammer-wielding thugs and recaptured the plant after a bloody fight. At the same time, Murdoch turned the Mirror into a catalogue of crime and cheesecake, and it battled the rival Sun to a standstill...
...Commercial, for instance, Wolfe turns to short fiction to anatomize the current art of race relations. A black baseball player named Willie Hammer has been asked to make a TV commercial for Charlemagne, a new line of men's toiletries. Hammer desperately wants the assignment; it gives him the chance to become a "superstar," instead of just another gifted black athlete. Trouble is, the script calls for him to pronounce Charlemagne as "Charlie Magnet." Hammer must act on nationwide TV as if he cannot read. Before the dilemma is resolved, Wolfe gores a number of oxen: the power...