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...Oklahoma! My Fair Lady. Funny Girl. Follies. Almost everyone loves a Broadway musical, and TIME is no exception; over the years we have featured these and a dozen other productions and their creators and stars on our cover. This week we are at it again, with a profile of British Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose The Phantom of the Opera opens later this month to the largest advance- ticket sales in Broadway history. "Phantom is more than a show," says Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the story. "Like Lloyd Webber himself, it's an international phenomenon...
...Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 22 of those states, highway deaths jumped 46% between May and July over the same three months in 1986. "Because of a few macho Westerners," says Howard, "more people are going to be killed." Neither the Reagan Administration nor Senator Don Nickles, the Oklahoma Republican who sponsored the latest bill, attaches much significance to these early fatality figures. Observes Nickles: "I don't think it is the speed limit that kills people so much as the behavior of the people driving." He argues that it is illogical for state roads to be bound...
...afraid that once the 65-m.p.h. limit is in place, it will be difficult to put on the brakes, no matter what the death rates show. Already, permission to lift the 55-m.p.h. limit has been requested by 14 states: Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Michigan, Nevada, Idaho, Texas and West Virginia...
Forget the Miami-Oklahoma football game. The match-up I'm holding my breath for is the Brown-Yale men's hockey showdown January 13 in Providence...
...promoting the top-selling soft drink, which has only about one-third less caffeine than coffee, as the eye-opener of choice. Billboards and radio commercials in Atlanta, New Orleans and Knoxville urge people to have "a Coke in the morning." Local bottlers echo the theme in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida...