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...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
Amos got his backing from show biz cookie freaks, notably Marvin Gaye and Jeff Wald and his wife Helen Reddy, who jointly put up $11,000. Says Wald: "We invested in it for love, but as it turns out, it will probably be a better investment than any we ever made. It could be worth a few million in a couple of years." Amos is in the chips (his two-year-old company grosses more than $1 million a year), but he frets incessantly about costs (pecans and chocolate have more than doubled in price in two years...
...MARVIN JOSEPHSON, 50, appears to be the antithesis of the popular image of an agent, but, unlike many of the modern breed who prefer euphemisms for their trade, he readily admits he is one. Soft-voiced, genial, unhurried and conservatively dapper, he launched International Creative Management in 1955 with $100 in capital and two clients, Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Newscaster Charles Collingwood. Since then, Josephson has built I.C.M. into a $30 million-a-year multinational company, embracing agents, a concert-booking bureau and a TV station. His 2,250 clients include Actor Laurence Olivier, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Musician Isaac...
...White House aides, Jordan and Powell fall somewhere between policymakers and breakers like Clark Clifford and Ted Sorensen, and mere doorkeepers like Kenneth O'Donnell and Marvin Watson. Even in this semi-exalted position, however, hubris remains a problem for the pair: they have gained so much power so soon. It could turn the heads of people twice their age. Another problem is that in the process of growing up politically at the White House, Jordan and Powell are bound to make mistakes-and at a high level...
...Republican resurgence," exulted G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock. That was putting it too strongly, but Republicans around the country did have something to cheer about. In a special congressional by-election in Washington's Seattle area last week, State Senator Jack Cunningham, 46, stunned Democrat Marvin Burning, 47, by winning a handy 54.2% of the vote. That means the G.O.P. has won two out of three congressional races this, year; earlier, Republican Arlan Stangeland won in Minnesota, though Democrat Wyche Fowler prevailed in Georgia...