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Decisions, Decisions. Pillsbury's profitable diversification is plotted mainly by Hanold who, unlike most corporate presidents, spends more time on forward planning than day-to-day operations. He shares the top management in close tandem with Robert Keith, the chief executive. When Keith moved Hanold up from treasurer last year and took the post of chairman for himself, he deliberately left the division of authority vague. Keith, a longtime Pillsbury salesman, says that he wanted a man to move Pillsbury into untapped areas...
Skip Freeman, who played a little defense last year, has joined sophomore Dave Jones on the second unit, and senior Tom Micheletti and sophomore Terry Driscoll form the third tandem...
Byars sees no reason to limit his multiperson garments to just four wearers. For the opening of his show, he induced several hundred New Yorkers to stick their heads through holes in a "mile-long" strip of fabric and parade in tandem around the block. "You see," he exulted. "We are changing the landscape of New York!" Inside another garment, titled 100 in an Airplane, he hoped that participants would strip to the buff and sit on the floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes...
...scene was in sharp contrast with 1964, when a rare air of harmony prevailed and L.B.J.'s ubiquitous aides moved in quickly to muffle any signs of schism. Johnson's men were running things again, in tandem with Daley, but they were far less conspicuous this time?as if they sensed that though they controlled the convention's machinery, they did not control its spirit...
Freudian Mud. In a special way, it was Nureyev's season. He performed at least three nights a week-most often in tandem with Margot Fonteyn, still a ballerina of faultless style at the age of 49. Nureyev also had a hand in the choreography of three productions that the Royal brought with it. The best were derivative-works restaged from the repertory of his former company, Russia's Kirov Ballet. By far the worst was his muddied Freudian version of The Nutcracker, in which Drosselmeyer, with a Humbert-Humbert lurch, is transformed into the prince who pays...