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...theory, it is the very model of a modern Marxist enterprise. Yugoslavia's clangorous Red Banner auto plant is located in a sprawling industrial park some 85 miles south of Belgrade. Inside a vast assembly hall, 16,000 workers turn out about 220,000 cars a year, including 55,000 copies of the small, ultra-cheap Yugo, the only Communist-built car sold in the U.S. Amid the factory hubbub, Radojko Suljagic, a department manager, extols the 78-member workers' council that ostensibly controls Red Banner. The elective body, of which Suljagic is president, not only chooses factory management...
...boozy, bemused uncle of the theater sees a parade of greats. He applauds Jimmy Durante, discovers Bob Hope and Groucho Marx, and collects parodies of a Cole Porter lyric: "Night and day under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me." The critic does not always twinkle; even Eugene O'Neill is regarded without awe because "no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously." As this rare and delightful scrapbook proves, O'Neill's was one affliction Benchley would never suffer...
Palm Springs itself, not to be left out, is planning a water-slide entertainment park and building a six-story Pierre Cardin hotel called Maxims. Next to it is a block- long string of fashion shops featuring Saks and I. Magnin. But the action now centers in what Palm Springs old-timers disparage as "down valley," where newcomers find no reason to leave their walled compounds and new shopping malls to drive into the "old town." Their lives revolve around the booming clubs. They spend their days on the fairways and their evenings at cocktail bashes, black-tie charity balls...
...hours, although they have complained that he does not permit his family the free flying privileges that most airline executives give their children. Burr and his wife Bridget, who was a cheerleader for his high school basketball team, occasionally manage to take the family to their ski condo in Park City, Utah, and to a home on Martha's Vineyard...
Veeck, who died last week of a heart attack at 71, was easily the most colorful baseball man never to play the game. A happy rebel against "the simple pieties of baseball," Veeck limped along on an artificial leg, dreaming up outrageous stunts to lure fans to the ball park. He installed the first exploding Scoreboard, moved the fences at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in and out depending on the strength of visiting teams, and once gave away six pigeons to an elegant fan simply "to answer the burning question of how a dignified man would hold...