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Londoners were surprised to see Mia Farrow at the opening of Opium, a one-man show starring Yul Brynner's son Roc. Mia doesn't get around much any more, for increasingly obvious reasons. No one seems to know exactly when she'll have Andre Previn's twins-but Childhood Chum Liza Minnelli, who has been named godmother for the pair, is planning to race the storks to London...
...British supertub is called the "Sagittarius Double Bath" and costs about $750. It was conceived two years ago, by British Interior Decorator Godfrey Bonsack, merely as an oversized one-man tub. "I'm short and fat," explains Bonsack, "and I wanted a raised step on one end for soaping, and then to be able to turn around and stretch out from the other end for soaking. But then, I thought, the four-foot width was just right; wouldn't it be fun if two people used it together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already...
High-Voltage Sales. Cornfeld started I.O.S. 14 years ago as a one-man firm in a Paris flat. Today it has grown into the world's largest financial sales organization, with 16,000 salesmen and 800,000 clients in 110 countries. Despite the natural resistance created by falling stock and mutual-fund prices, the high-voltage organization last year almost doubled its sales, to $3.1 billion. Just under $1 billion in cash flowed into the company's coffers. I.O.S. not only manages eleven mutual funds of its own but has spread into almost every major field of finance...
...held our own for about ten minutes," said Harrison, "but then those big men started playing patty-cake under the basket, [Center Artis] Gihnore is a one-man gang...
...criticized Stalin for "diverging from the Leninist principles of collective leadership," which resulted in "unfounded reprisals against prominent party, state and military figures." Shorn of its jargon, the statement means that the present collective leadership is not at all tempted to return to the principal feature of Stalinism: absolute one-man rule, reinforced by mass police terror. The men in the Kremlin well know that the Stalinist system would devour those who set it in motion again, as it once devoured tens of thousands of Stalin's colleagues. If Stalin's role as a World War II military...