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...front of Notre Dame cathedral." After taking two weeks to consider his verdict, Judge Taillandier last week had the tail-end word. He fined Polnareff $12,000 ($2 a poster), his record company, which had paid for the posters, $12,000, and his pressagent, who had conceived the stunt, $6,000. All together it was a $30,000 kick...
...real hit of the show is a stunt which begins with a single girl riding onstage on a bicycle. She does a few ordinary tricks, then is joined by one girl after another until finally there are seven. When they jump off and exit, the act seems finished. But another girl appears on a bicycle. Nine others with big grins run onstage and, unbelievably, hop on the bicycle...
This Davis does, starting out as a publicity stunt for a fertilizer company and continuing on his own after the company's president changes his mind. No one can persuade Davis to stop. He refuses to accept rides-even in elevators-and generally sheds material and cultural encumbrances. Mostly he sleeps wherever night catches him, of ten outdoors, though occasionally he takes shelter with gypsies or nomads...
...Rally. To force the integration of local hospitals in the mid-'60s, Hobson one day walked into an all-white ward in the Washington Hospital Center and calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington's black...
...Throwing money at some problems does not solve them." More, Nixon wants to prevent the continuing swell of deficits, which could restimulate inflation. Since Nixon has pledged not to raise taxes, the Administration could fight a deficit-caused inflation only by pressing for tight money, and that could stunt the now surging economy...