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...anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines, drew loud applause by declaring, "There are going to be people who are dumb and stupid and screw up no matter what we do." Ohio Democratic Congressman Thomas Luken showed up to cheer on the manufacturers. Said he: "Probably no recent issue has snowballed so quickly...
DIED. Howard Greenfield, 49, pop-rock lyricist whose hits with collaborator (and high school buddy) Neil Sedaka included the 1975 Grammy winner Love Will Keep Us Together as well as Stupid Cupid, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...
...Somebody said the second most stupid thing in the world that a man could say was that he could understand the Russians," declares the President. "I've often wondered what in hell was the first." But, he adds, he certainly realizes the futility of believing the Russians can be fully understood...
...Stuff Happens thinking that the chief defect of American politics is its lack of sly and worldly Oxbridge graduates of the kind serving Blair. At one point in the play, a Yank says to a British official that 9/11 forever changed America. Yes, he replies, it made it more stupid. Maybe so. But something more than stupidity made the Iraq tragedy. About what that might be, David Hare, trafficker in caricature, hasn't a clue. --By Richard Schickel
...first teen to win a men's Grand Slam event since Pete Sampras took the U.S. Open in 1990, stays low-key when not crushing a ball. "A dream came true for me in Paris, but I will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving advantage, but his serve...