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Honey, load the Winnebago! Proprietors hope the gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...already the largest retailer, smothering Sears and K Mart. "The impact of a corporation of that size and that involvement in the life of this country is immense," declares Stone, who recently held meetings with the merchants of St. James (pop. 4,300) and Madelia (pop. 2,100), Minn., two small communities gasping in a web of Wal-Marts. He advised them, as he has countless other small-town merchants, on how to deal with the arrival of a Wal-Mart in their region. "I don't fight Wal-Mart," Stone insists. "If you believe in the free-market system...
...NCAA men's basketball title will be decided tonight in Minneapolis, Minn., and, though Harvard won't be represented on the court, many students here are certainly looking forward to the game...
Kopple's material is unpromising: a labor dispute at the Hormel meat- packing plant in little Austin, Minn., eight years ago. My dear, how quaint. Are they really still having these things? Yes, and they are more difficult than ever to evaluate. In Austin there were three sides: a management operating in a depressed industry and determined to roll back wages despite continuing profits; an international union convinced that this was the wrong time for a strike; and a local union led by militants and further stirred by a hired consultant whose strategy was to embarrass the company into capitulation...
...Cubans, it appears, are already in Glimcher's pocket. On opening night of the Miami Film Festival last month, they virtually adopted the director, a nice Jewish boy from Duluth, Minn., as an honorary Cuban. "They were so in the movie," Glimcher says, still beaming. "They moved in their seats like a wave. When the music played, there was not a still lap." The moguls are no problem either. As the Bel Air screening circuit has spread the good word, studio bosses have pummeled this novice director with dozens of scripts. (Thanks, but he prefers to develop his own projects...