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BEND ME, SHAPE ME (ACTA). It took The American Breed five years to achieve success and the question is: Why did it take so long? They are a pleasant, easygoing group with their feet firmly planted on solid rock and enough jazz, blues and soul overtones to make the insistent Green Light, the confidential Bend Me, Shape Me, and the soul of Something You've Got and the slow rock sounds of Mind-rocker interesting, even hummable...
...moment, the prospects for Rockefeller's success hinge on state leaders rather than on statesmanship. Several nominally uncommitted G.O.P. Governors, such as Ohio's James Rhodes and Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, privately favor Rockefeller. He must prove to these and other favorite sons that he can keep enough delegates out of Nixon's net between now and August to merit their support. Rockefeller must also rekindle the ardor of other Governors who have been chilled by his recent to-ing and froing...
...pollution, a Japanese process can be used to convert fly ash into cinder blocks. Since the market is too small for commercial success, public subsidies would make sense; recovering waste at the source is almost always cheaper than cleanup later. There are some real prospects of profit in reconstituting other waste. Take sulfur, for example, which is in short supply around the world. While 26 million tons are mined a year, smokestacks belch 28 million tons of wasted sulfur dioxide, which could easily be trapped in the stack and converted to sulfuric acid or even fertilizer. Standard Oil of California...
...question of audience response is pertinent because it strikes at the heart of the crisis of communication in Sessions' music. He would love nothing better than an audience ovation. But, stubborn New England descendant of Mayflower pilgrims that he is, he refuses to bid for easy success with the latest fashions. For that reason, he has had to settle for the high esteem of colleagues and critics, and the reputation of a Zeus on a cloud-cloaked Olympus doing his own thing, virtually daring the multitudes to like...
...rebuild Publicis almost from scratch. In the process, he picked up such major accounts as Shell, Colgate-Palmolive and Renault. He also gave the agency a profitable sideline by opening Le Drugstore on the ground floor of the Publicis building on the Champs Elysees, a venture whose success has led to a profusion of American-style drugstores across France...