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...become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face, framed in a heart-shaped helmet of chestnut hair, appeared on the covers...
...largest academic underground operates within the confines of San Francisco State College, where a benign administration last winter permitted students to organize an experimental college that featured New Left Idol Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) as a seminar leader. Operating out of three jerry-built huts on campus, the shadow school now has 70 courses ranging from "Competition and Violence" to "Gestalt Therapy" to "Kinesthetics." There is no charge for the seminar-like courses, which take place in the evening, and are taught by both students and members of State's faculty. Enrollment this fall...
...subterranean yen for a pseudomonarchical Kennedy "restoration," with Bobby currently playing the part of the exiled king. "There is a religious fervor building up about this guy that is even stronger than the one they built up around Jack," says Barry Goldwater. "Bobby's becoming a god, an idol...
...interrupted a movie he is making in London to put on the show, crooned a few ballads and, taking leave of the Governor backstage, flew off in the Sinatra Enterprises plane, leaving the Brown campaign kitty $225,000 fatter. Not to be outdone, Reagan, himself a late-show idol (among his credits, Brown likes to remind voters, is Bedtime for Bonzo), will be getting support on the stump from the likes of John Wayne, Irene Dunne, Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), and Senator George Murphy...
...HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The foible-filled private life of a TV-western idol who's absolutely terrified of horses and allergic to sagebrush, featuring Richard Mulligan...