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Playing the part of pacesetter is nothing new to Sagan. While growing up in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst section, the son of a U.S.-born mother and a Russian-immigrant father?a garment cutter who rose to factory manager???he was already thinking of the heavens while other children were preoccupied with stickball and marbles. He recalls: "I remember seeing the stars and asking my friends what they were. They told me that they were lights...
...fiercely loyal to the New York City Opera, as she is to all the people who gave her support when she needed it. Two years ago, Beverly was approached with flattering offers by a top-ranking New York manager???the same manager who, a decade earlier, had kept her cooling her heels in his outer office for 2½ hours before telling her he could not use her. Now Beverly cut him off with one clean stroke. "I'm not interested in working with anybody." she said, "who keeps a singer waiting 2½ hours...
Ben?from blacksmith to farm manager???was hand-picked for performance...
Since every important Soviet step is supposed to be taken in a direction pointed out by Lenin, cautious Stalin is rebuking the Communists and trade unionists of Nizhnii Novgorod, reminded them that one of Lenin's slogans was: "Absolute obedience to the will of one man?namely the Soviet manager???during working hours!" Motor car production, the Dictator ordered, must be up to schedule within six months...
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