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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce N. Deppa Gaithersburg...
...Harvard Coop sold $33,000 worth of greeting cards in the past three weeks, Summer N. Goldstein, a buyer for the store, said yesterday. "We've run out of candy, we've sold 90 per cent of our cards, and we've done 53 per cent more business than last year. In the early seventies people saw Valentines as foolish. Now they're starting to get more sentimental," he said...
...long shadow across Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, of course, is Elvis Presley. He gets a whole segment to himself, which includes his first Hollywood screen test, an appearance on the Milton Berle show and the great title number from Jailhouse Rock. In Elvis!, directed by John Carpenter and written by Anthony Lawrence, he is also treated well but the shadows deepen even further. He becomes the classic figure of American success: famous, frightened and mother-fixated. The movie catches Presley's suicidal insulation, the shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success...
...subject all at once: his I shadow deep on a white wall, Presley sits alone in a dark Las Vegas hotel room, dressed all in black, watching television from behind dark shades, waiting for the night and his first show. It's good drama and good rock 'n' roll...
Though many U.S. companies have in fact been quietly cutting back their European operations for some years, the specter of a wholesale pullout was not raised until last summer. Then, Chrysler Corp. abruptly announced that it was selling its European business to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and stock in the French company. Since then, alarmist charges have regularly bobbed up in Europe's press. "The American multinationals are deserting," warns a French economic weekly. "U.S. business is at ebb tide," declares a Belgian magazine...