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...records, dancing steps proclaiming a kind of spirit that has long since passed from their lives as well as our own. The world of the dead Follies and the reality of the present intermingle constantly in Sondheim's work. No sooner does a performer do her old soft shoe than the tin-pan-alley trumpet fades into a somber and often dissonant piece of music Sondheim has written to capture the mood of disintegration that hangs over the ongoing celebration...
Meanwhile in Washington, the most dramatic blackout since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw, in the words of Diplomatic Correspondent William Mader, the same "intense expenditure of shoe leather, seemingly endless knocking on doors, convoluted probing and painstaking mosaic work." Over at the Pentagon, the messages were even fewer and farther between. "People were not talking because they just didn't know," reported Correspondent John Mulliken. "At one point a three-star Army general said rather plaintively, 'I was left out of Son Tay [the U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp], and I am embarrassed...
...Illinois attorney general and the Illinois Bureau of Investigation are taking the true measure of his success. Powell, who in his lifetime of public service never earned more than $30,000 a year, left an estate worth more than $2 million-$800,000 of it in bills packed into shoe boxes, briefcases and strongboxes in the closet of his hotel suite in Springfield...
...nation's TV screens last week, the Marlboro man made his last stand. So did the hole-in-the-shoe fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel, and the snooty adventurer who incredibly prefers a Silva Thin to a maiden plump. Forbidden by Congress to promote their cigarettes on television and radio after Jan. 1, tobacco companies clogged the airways with a surfeit of last-minute plugs, especially during the New Year's Day bowl games...
...subsequently convicted 18 times for drug possession and related offenses. Neither fear of jail nor intensive efforts by doctors freed him from drugs. But today Smith's life is significantly different. At 42, he is married, and he recently left his job as a shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center to down a cup of Tang spiked with methadone, a synthetic drug that he takes...