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...tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
Icing & Crash Pad. These two hits-as well as more recent successes such as Paper Cup and Wichita Lineman-reveal Webb's gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what...
Webb spends most of his time these days in a 22-room Hollywood mansion that serves as his home, corporate headquarters, "crash pad" for friends in need, and raucous rehearsal hall for clients and colleagues. Self-possessed amidst the noise and confusion, he still manages to get to his Yamaha concert grand or his electric organ to work on new music, sometimes with incredible facility (he wrote Up, Up and Away in 35 minutes). In fact, in addition to a plethora of pop projects (including a score for an original film musical), he is branching out to tackle a rock...
Well aware that its millions come from sales of many small packages, American Home has a housewife's penchant for counting pennies. American Home has no company planes, not even company cars. In the office, Laporte likes to pad down the plain tile hallways, buttonholing executives with questions like "What have you done for us today?" Nobody ever need ask Laporte that question. At American Home board meetings, the man running the movie projector is likely to be the company's $172,000-a-year boss...
Russian Planets? The U.S. moon program has been delayed for more than a year by the Apollo launching-pad fire. But despite the holocaust, and the flawed performance of the Saturn 5 moon rocket three weeks ago, it is still ahead of the Soviet Union's. Engineers now blame the Saturn 5 failures on what appear to be a pair of rare flukes-a leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable...