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...fashion women's clothes trademarked Dynasty. He now has a large factory in Kowloon, a showroom in the Peninsula Hotel and exports his clothes around the world. "A lot of guys come out here exploring," says Johnson, "but there's a general reluctance to stay and ride herd on the operation. And that's the only way to make it work...
...opening night their repertory-or their improvisations-came at times from the common hoard of satire and seemed aimed at the common herd. But even with phone-booth frustrations or bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play...
...shotput, the U.S. whales will wage a private war that will likely produce the most fascinating field event on the program. Back for a try at his third gold medal is California's Parry O'Brien, patriarch of the herd at 28. whose best effort this year (63 ft. 5 in.) nonetheless stands a poor third to that of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long (64 ft. 6½ in.) and Kansas' Bill Nieder, 26. the world record holder (65 ft. 10 in.). As the equalizer. O'Brien counts on his imposing reputation...
When Red China's Mao Tse-tung decided two years ago to herd his 650 million subjects into beehive-style communes, nobody professed to be more appalled than Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
Critics of American civilization, like most specialists, tend to be narrow in their diagnoses of what ails the U.S. David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd worries about other-directedness and herd instinct. William H. Whyte in The Organization Man examines the loss of individuality caused by modern corporate life. Vance Packard in The Status Seekers sees the trouble in a craving for the symbols of importance. Frank Gibney, a journalistic G.P., has a simpler, more sweeping and engagingly old-fashioned diagnosis: the whole place is getting to be crooked, just plain crooked...