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Like a stream growing into a mighty river, Jimmy Carter's presidency has become very personal. His face-to-face success at Camp David gave the demand for his presence an immeasurable stimulus. Now almost every issue and dispute that is not routine is carried to the White House in search of Carter's healing touch. It may be the best or the worst thing that has happened to him-no one is sure just yet. Last week he was hurrying around Washington in his limousine, jumping in and out of his tuxedo, shuffling speech texts and telephone...
...hundreds of gallons of water on the hot core. Its temperature, which had jumped to 516° C (960° F), still far short of zir-caloy's melting point, soon settled back to 149° C (300° F). Exclaimed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Thomas Morley: "I pronounce this experiment a success!" Then off he went for a victory party of pizza and beer...
...license plate gives a little away: NUM 1. This is not wish fulfillment on a rear bumper, though. The owner of this Mercedes rates. In a time of phenomenal success for the record business (698.2 million albums, singles and tapes were sold for $3.5 billion in 1977), Al Coury, president, head honcho and chief dervish of Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making...
They are the only ones. This year, RSO will sell more than $300 million worth of records. Al Coury spearheaded the runaway success of the Grease and Saturday Night Fever sound tracks, making them two of the alltime Top Ten albums. He insists that the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sound track package will sell 4.6 million units. For 42 weeks of 1978, RSO albums occupied the top slot on the charts. During one of those weeks, the RSO logo?a benign, bright red castrated bull?graced the labels on three of the top five albums. During...
Such playground infighting is fueled by the high odds against the success of any new record: as program directors at the stations narrow their play lists and the Top 40 shrinks to the Top 25, companies try to introduce an average of 150 new records every week, of which maybe three will be hits. But the rewards can be as big as the risks. "We've shaken off our dependence on the whims of twelve-year-olds," says Elektra/Asylum Chairman Joe Smith. "No longer is the Establishment above pop music." Adds Coury, "What we've done is put the industry...