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WHEN SWINGTIME SWEETIE Billy Crocker sings the praises of nightclub knockout Reno Sweeney, he lovingly croons "You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Chippendale." Not to be outdone, Reno hails Billy as equal in stature to a silver dollar, an Arrow collar--even "cellophane...
...caucuses puts a higher than usual premium on precisely the factors that are Mondale's strengths: money, organization, a well-known name and a sharply defined appeal to party loyalists. Those strengths are so formidable, in fact, that it will be difficult for Glenn to score a knockout, even if he wins the early rounds. By the same token, Mondale will be hard pressed to K.O. Glenn, whose hero status gives him a staying power unavailable to most ordinary politicians. So much for the sudden-death first-inning theory...
...chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger. The referee threw it out of the ring, stopped the fight-a victory on a technical knockout for Champion Louis...
...keeping with Marxist-Leninist principles, the judges' guidelines emphasized intelligence and morals over beauty. But the 21-year-old winner, Lidia Wasiak (35-24-36), is a knockout by any ideological standard. The competition for Poland's first beauty queen in 25 years was held last week at Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, where Wasiak won the crown that opens the way to the Miss World contest this November in London. A crowd of 4,000 watched their comely comrades parade across the stage in regional costumes, evening gowns and finally, in an inescapable concession...
...standards the summer is a knockout. After four years of slumping sales and stagnating sounds, the pop music industry is once again experiencing a welcome artistic and financial bonanza, one that is making this rock 'n' roll's headiest season of the decade. Says Gil Friesen, president of A&M Records: "People are buying so many albums by new artists, it adds up to a new passion...