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Getting Jackson's popularity turned around in the U.S. is a much knottier issue. While he remains a top star internationally--foreign sales of HIStory actually matched those from Thriller, the best-selling album of all time--his draw in America is still slack. Next year Jackson will be recording an album with Kenneth ("Baby Face") Edmonds, one of the hottest producers in the music business. Says an Alwaleed adviser: "We've got to make him hip again, and how you do that is all about perception...
...many, the fetal-tissue transplant raised a troubling question: Should doctors be allowed to use tissue from intentionally aborted fetuses to alleviate an otherwise hopeless condition? The Baby Gabriel case focused on even knottier dilemmas: Should laws defining death be rewritten to allow the "harvesting" of anencephalic donors? Should their existence be prolonged solely to enable doctors to take their organs...
...even knottier problem, however, was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been alternately conciliatory and confrontational in both his private meetings and public statements. Jackson, who also met with Beckel last week, is annoyed that he has not had any private meetings with Mondale. After Jackson carried his complaints about "unfair" election practices to Capitol Hill, House Speaker Tip O'Neill somewhat grudgingly agreed to appoint a commission of congressional Democrats, chaired by Arizona's Morris Udall, to study the issues. Jackson argued once again, and validly, that the unfairness of the delegate selection was shown...
...Southern California, the odd-looking knobs that can be seen protruding just below the kneecaps and on the top of the feet of suntanned surfboarders are generally recognized as a status symbol, the mark of a practiced wave rider. The medical significance of the strange lumps is a knottier problem, and West Coast doctors are now seeing more and more evidence of such surf board trauma...
Down from the Peak. Cross and Abernethy will have far knottier problems to sleep on. One reason why AMC was able to bounce back from a perilous 2% of the market to its present 7% was that it had adequate production facilities. But to achieve its goal of producing 700,000 cars in 1964, AMC must expand its plants, which are already uneconomic for even the 485,000 cars it is producing this year. AMC may be handicapped by its dependence on outside suppliers for many components, since it is thus less able to control costs than its rivals...