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...upstart tennis bats an poach a few quick sets from your weekly partner. Flaunt that ego But hurry, because the word-of-mouth fad has taken off like a Harold Solomon moon ball and soon your opponent will indulge himself with the weapon. Then you and your rival will both be using oversized racquets. Thus, eventually the racquets will neutralize each other and everyone will be serving from zero. But in tennis that means love...
...time in the commission's 24-year history that a President has fired members.* Black leaders across the U.S. promptly blasted the move as a threat to the committee's tradition of outspoken independence. "Arthur Flemming was dismissed for doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington of Illinois. Alluding to the body's lack of enforcement power, National Urban Coalition President M. Carl Holman said, "I don't see how you gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this." Yet other black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration...
Marathon's executives were clearly worried that absorption by Mobil would destroy their company's identity, a fear U.S. Steel sought to allay. Said Marathon President Harold D. ("Hoop") Hoopman, 61, after the agreement was announced: "We've been assured by U.S. Steel that Marathon will remain a vigorous competitive force in the oil industry...
Music, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Directed by Harold Prince...
...Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim seem to have been born middleaged. Rue, disenchantment, a kind of middle-aged tristesse recur in their collaborations. In the most brilliant of them. Company and Follies, melancholia about marriage and success was imminent but airborne; in Merrily We Roll Along it falls with the thud of a foregone conclusion...