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Warren Beatty. He's so vain that the song is apparently about him, at least according to Stephen Davis. Of course the whole thing's completely unverified, mere rumor, but the profile of Beatty in a recent Walter Scott Personality Parade makes him sound like a swell candidate. Anyway, good to see healthy revelation coming in with Ma Nature's second half offensive. This weather's going to make it real hard to change the shredded front tire on my car. To the music...
...speed Control Data's financial recovery. The firm lost a total of $46 million on computer operations in 1970 and 1971, but will probably report a small profit on them for 1972. Acquiring the Service Bureau, which last year earned $1.5 million on revenues of $63 million, will swell Control Data's profits, as well as make the company a power in the services business. Control Data now has 27 service centers of its own and will pick up 44 more from the Service Bureau...
...picking himself up after having slipped on some thought of Nietzsche's or Strindberg's or Freud's. He was addicted to dramatic stunts-drums in The Emperor Jones, mannequins in The Hairy Ape, masks in The Great God Brown. Something of a Broadway swell and a nifty dresser, he aspired to be a flashy man-about-words, a self-described poet, no less, and some of his highfalutin attempts along these lines make one cringe...
...bank officers functioning as accountants. Envious of foreign workers who can spend more in one vacation day in Spain than a local man can earn in a week, 1,000,000 Spaniards have left home to work in other countries; the $500 million they send back annually helps to swell the national income...
...PEOPLE had recognized her on the plane from Birmingham. They had seen the large, rounded swell of Afro crowning the handsome, high-cheeked face, and then they had looked closer. It was unmistakably she. "That's Angela Davis," one of them said. "We would recognize her anywhere...