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...mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts and clothes hangers. A bestseller is a wall poster depicting the Chancellor in a superman costume leaping over all sorts of political hurdles...
...Monkey King, which tells the story of a cleric's disciple who drinks too much, fights too much, but does a lot of good and in the end becomes a Buddhist. Perhaps China's most popular legendary hero, the Monkey King is a sort of 16th century superman who carries a seven-ton club and can cover 36,000 miles in a single tumble. Actor Chang Fu-ch'un, 28, brings off the title role with a series of preposterously effective battles against wind, fire, rockfalls and water spirits...
...Festival might have broken even had Quincy not sponsored two expensive productions, the musical, "Superman," and the operas by Stravinsky and Henze at which attendance was minimal, Scherlis said...
Aaron's pursuit of the Babe's magic number has other meanings as well. Ruth was larger than life, (see box next page) a carefree superman in a giddy era. Aaron cannot depose him no matter how many home runs he hits. But Aaron, by comparison merely a flesh-and-blood Everyman, demonstrates that a hero need not be mythic...
...Americans, the Japanese are discovering that success does not necessarily make them popular. In Britain, a Gallup poll shows that 37% of those questioned regard Japan as "an unfriendly country." On the cover of Vision, a European business monthly, the Japanese businessman was depicted as a belligerent, muscle-flexing superman. German executives do not like it that Japanese salaries are generally 10% to 30% higher than their own. The Japanese politely retort that their success is merited because they work harder to sell to Europeans than Europeans do to sell to them...