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...often recruit unknowns and has-beens. When Don Tolle of Atlanta started his Noble Vision country-music label in 1979, he had no artists. He tracked down Jim Glaser, a once successful singer who had grown fat and unhappy playing in motel bars. After finding a financial backer, Hal Oven, they recorded an old song of Glaser's and turned it into a hit by making phone calls to 1,100 radio stations. That led to an album, The Man in the Mirror, which has stayed on the country charts for 67 weeks, a smash by any measure...
...protesters represented the New England Campaign to Stop the Euromissiles and chose the AVCO site, because that company allegedly produces components for the Pershing Missiles. Redlich said the protest was an effort "to prevent the land from being used to create a nuclear oven...
...cocaine. Tranquilandia included a dormitory large enough to sleep 80 or more, and a dining area complete with dishwasher and refrigerator. Its bathrooms were furnished with showers and orange-and-white flush toilets made of Italian ceramic. Among its more luxurious appointments were a Betamax video recorder, a microwave oven and a library of pornographic magazines. According to the community's records, fresh supplies of chickens and pigs were flown in daily; the settlement's payroll took care of as many as 1,000 employees, including electricians and plumbers, waiters and cooks...
Americans are hooked on speed. Not the drug variety, mind you, but the overnight delivery kind. Like the microwave oven and the videocassette recorder, air packages have become such a convenience that people now wonder how they ever got along without them. Overnight delivery is also an exploding, $5 billion-a-year business. One of the fly-by-night companies, Emery Air Freight, ships Cabbage Patch Kids for Coleco, couture dresses for Bloomingdale's and personal computers for IBM. During the Christmas season, the boom time for shippers, Federal Express will carry almost 500,000 parcels daily. Last week...
...continually accosted by WHRB's signal. The WHRB broadcast comes in as background music to any radio station, record, or tape that we try to listen to on our stereos. The tunes from the top of Holyoke Center (where WHRB's) antenna is) even invade our television and toaster oven...