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Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
...Italy have been fully booked since early May. The new cut-rate ($149) People Express transatlantic flights are sold out through mid-September (see box). Sales of American Express vacation packages, which are almost all priced below 1980 levels, are running 43% ahead of last year, and for the peak month of June were 100% ahead. TWA has already sold 175% more of its budget Supersaver tours than it did during the same period last year. Many budget packages are virtually sold out. To plan late is often to pay more this year...
...industry has also suffered from rising production costs, huge long-term artists' contracts and an estimated $1 billion in revenues lost to home made recordings on cassette tapes each year. The result: 150 million fewer records and tapes were shipped last year than in the industry's peak year...
...years later, after forming his own band, James discovered young Frank Sinatra, who left (to join Tommy Dorsey) before the band's romantic 1941 hit recording of You Made Me Love You established James as one of the premier swingmen during World War II. His fame hit its peak in 1943, when he married America's No. 1 pinup, Betty Grable (from whom he was divorced 22 years later). Despite the many subsequent changes in popular taste, James held a band together for 40 years, playing his final gig ten days before he died...
...words echo Ali's youthful braggadocio; the prediction seems merely reasonable. Lewis, who turns 22 this week, possesses powers far from their peak. But he may already be the premier track and field athlete of his generation-the modern equivalent of his idol, Jesse Owens. Last year Lewis jumped nearly 30 ft., but fouled by an undetectable whisker. Meanwhile, track watchers are already muttering about...