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...investment has more than doubled from $13.7 billion to an estimated $30 billion in 1976. The Western Europeans, in particular, have been snapping at every investment opportunity-Midwestern farms to outright acquisitions of sizable companies. Says Richard Roberts, a senior international investment adviser at Commerce: "This investment is the hottest thing on the economic scene, and is probably the best-kept secret in Washington...
...lesser spirit. Finally, thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side, she concocts fantastic business deals that bring riches to her friends and show-biz backers-and yes, even to that little secretary who entrusted her life savings...
...being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert De Niro, the phantom of the cinema, strikes again...
Both sides in the debate agree that the B-l is the hottest bomber ever flown. But is it worth its $102 million price tag? Can it reach targets deep within the Soviet Union if there is a nuclear war? These questions are especially important because, according to present strategy, close to 60% of the U.S. nuclear megatonnage will be carried by manned bombers, the rest by missiles based on land and aboard submarines. Concedes Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, a B-l backer: "Considerable logic can be mustered for either side of the argument...
Dallas also has an elan (the Houston-based club has another branch in Memphis and is breaking ground for a sibling in Chicago), but the hottest place in town is Le Jardin. Boston has the handsome new Fan Club, of which one patron says proudly, "It's trashy enough to be New York, only straighter." Miami has the pulsating Palm Room in the fashionable Palm Bay Club. Disco-mania has spread to the suburbs of New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, to Holiday Inns and department store basements. There is hardly a disco owner who is sure that...