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Money & Fun. Next to come is the California Exposition, a permanent, year-round state fair just five minutes from Sacramento. Opening on July 1, it will feature a vast amusement park, an exhibition center, a race track and artificial lakes. The $20 million project, which is designed for the enjoyment of all the family, covers 630 acres. Estimates are that in the next twelve years the Exposition will draw 50 million people, gross some $330 million for the state-and in the process create a sizable boom for Sacramento...
...Koppelman says, "We really weren't that good as songwriters." After a while, they prudently turned to publishing other composers' songs, and eventually went on to produce recordings of those songs. Last week, after having turned out a string of 17 gold-record hits (sales of a million copies) by such performers as The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin and The Turtles, Koppelman, 28, and Rubin, 29, sold out their publishing and production enterprises to a holding company for a reported...
...Crewe, 37, a former interior decorator, model, singer and songwriter, is a rare example of an "older" independent producer who successfully adapted to rock. His 62 hits and total of 100 million sales span several styles (Mitch Ryder, Lesley Gore), but all reflect his desire to "avoid the naked, irritating sounds while using the basic force of the beat." Crewe's three-floor Manhattan penthouse-decorated with mirrored ceilings, carved panels from the Indonesian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, and kangaroo-skin bedspreads-is also the nerve center for his group of eight production, publishing...
Compared with the ringing statements on racial equality of other U.S. churches, the few pronouncements of the 11 million-member Southern Baptist Convention have been notable only for their ineffective neutrality. At the Baptists' annual meeting in Houston last week, however, nearly three-fourths of the 7,000 messengers (delegates) approved a strong declaration that called upon the convention to open all churches to black membership and work for better housing, employment and education for Negroes. It also acknowledged the denomination's "share of responsibility" for the nation's racial crisis...
Squirting Grease. "I would much rather have a pastorate," Fry once said, "than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery." Yet at the job of making churches run he had no peer. He served for six years as president of the Lutheran World Federation, which has 72 million members in 43 countries, and was also a founder-and lifetime president-of Lutheran World Relief, which last year sent $3,000,000 to aid victims of disaster and poverty around the world. In addition to governing his own denomination, he served for the last 14 years as chairman of the World...