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...selection. A former jazz bass player and housewife, she decided to become a lawyer after four years as a legal secretary. In this age of specialization, she has quickly fashioned her own little niche: representing people whose tales provide the raw material for TV and movie docudramas. Such stranger-than-fiction stories are in hot Hollywood demand at the moment, and Golden has become the little guy's negotiatrix nonpareil. So far she has represented ten clients and has turned away many more. This week CBS will air one of her projects, The Ordeal of Bill Carney...
Rawson is no stranger to the commission, having served on it from 1958 to 1964. "I was sitting on the commission when Cassius Clay--now he's Muhammad Ali--was going to fight Sonny Liston," Rawson said, explaining that the fight never took place because Clay discovered a hernia injury the day of the weigh...
...when she emphasized the need for awareness about individual security. "She stressed how important it is to tell people your plans when you go away," one student said, and Lichens said she thinks it is unlikely that Webster would have "done anything unsafe, like take a ride from a stranger...
Henze does not drive a Rolls-Royce, but he is no stranger to capitalist success. The premiere in 1952 of his first major opera, Boulevard Solitude, brought him widespread attention. By age 40 he had recorded all five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor...
...looked like a crisis that could be dealt with only by an expert in the tire industry. But the board of directors unexpectedly went outside the business and chose John Nevin, 54, the silver-haired chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., to head Firestone. Nevin was not a total stranger to Firestone's world. Earlier in his career, he had been general manager of Ford Motor Co.'s parts division. Says he: "I knew tires and tire companies well...