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...alive with TV commercials. lacocca also gives himself heavy exposure as TV pitchman; it is an expressive face, an appealing tough-guy personality and, who knows, if he could pull Chrysler out of the hole, save American jobs ... The president of CBS is an unknown face, but any heir apparent who can avoid being fired by Bill Paley has undeniable political talents...
...doubt the highlight of this holiday season will be a Christmas Day broadcast on public TV called "Christmas a Penn State." According to the show's oficial description. "The Penn State Glee Club and Brass Chorale capture the essence of yuletide in Central Pennsylvania in heir outdoor performance of holiday music. Shot at various locations in and round the Penn State Campus...
...building that made his rise to power possible. Few of the contenders for the succession labored under more formidable handicaps. Leonid Brezhnev, wary of Andropov, opposed his police chiefs ambitions. But Brezhnev's first choice, Andrei Kirilenko, fell ill or was disgraced last year. Then Andropov gradually undercut the heir apparent, Konstantin Chernenko, a longtime Brezhnev crony who was vulnerable because he lacked both experience and political pull...
Brezhnev's heir will have to work with, and watch, these...
Chernenko traveled widely with Brezhnev, giving rise to speculation that the Soviet President had picked him as his heir apparent. But without his patron's protection, Chernenko was apparently unable to win votes from Politburo members who remembered all too well how he had opened mineral-water bottles for his boss during Kremlin meetings...