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...functions as insufficiently newsworthy. But their reports of Raisa Gorbachev's other appearances in Geneva found a receptive audience back home. She was featured in action at the Red Cross ceremony, and her name was mentioned for the first time on Soviet television. In Moscow citizens took obvious pride in her stylishness. Said a Soviet artist: "You Westerners must have thought all our women were barrel-shaped grannies like Brezhnev's wife." Some observers thought that the First Lady's performance might lead to a more formal role, heretofore unheard of, in Soviet public life...
...another case of corporate indigestion, Pantry Pride, the supermarket chain that acquired Revlon in November, last week announced that it had sold two Revlon units to Beecham Group, a British conglomerate, for $395 million. The two jettisoned Revlon divisions are Norcliff Thayer, maker of Tums antacids and other over-the-counter medications, and Reheis, a chemicals manufacturer. ENTERTAINMENT Rockin' with Uncle...
...Sevalstad permits no real classroom nonsense and gets little from ranch children raised to do chores right. Fifth and sixth graders give her a hand with the little ones. Said Erica Hess: "They ask me what words mean and what the directions in their work books say." Sevalstad takes pride in the Thanksgiving themes tacked to one wall. Wrote Vance Voldseth, age 10: "I am thankful for the Yamaha three-wheeler ... I am thankful for Fred [a calf] ... I am thankful...
...each, and Johnson was on his way. Negro Digest lasted only twelve years, but a second Johnson magazine, Ebony, quickly became the journal of black America. Packed with news, feature articles and dramatic photography, it chronicled the civil rights movement and was a catalyst for the development of black pride...
Johnson is proof of what an astute businessman with a sense of black pride can accomplish. He dines occasionally at the White House and is an important contributor to such politicians as Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Illinois Governor James Thompson. Yet Johnson has never been completely comfortable with his success. Says he: "I live with the knowledge that it's possible to fail, and I try so hard that...