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Ullman balances this torrent of abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...
More insidious was the torrent of gifts, usually clothes or perfume, that flooded the journalists' hotel rooms every day. "The houses don't give the journalists free gifts," purred an Italian p.r. man, "but they do give them discounts of between 10% and 100%." Publications like the New York Times and Washington Post bar their reporters from accepting discounts, but others are more lax. Recalled a British reporter: "I shared a hotel room with an Italian journalist once, and after a few days you could hardly get into the place for all the presents...
...reservoirs swelled to their highest levels since 1941. Medical supplies and food had to be airlifted to 200 families marooned in nearby De Luz when the Margarita River overflowed its banks. In Phoenix, Ariz., the Salt River, which is normally dry at this time of year, turned into a torrent, cutting off all but two of 13 crossings into the city from the suburbs...
This scenario is not the product of an avid Hollywood scriptwriter. It is a grim projection by British experts who know only too well that the apparently placid Thames can turn with little warning into a terrifying torrent. To forestall the disaster that a "worst case" Thames flood would produce, British engineers are rushing to complete by the end of 1982 an extraordinary project: a giant, movable steel and concrete flood barrier that in normal circumstances will allow the passage of large ships but rise up during flood threats to block the menacing waters...
Voyaging through the Caribbean (and off Nova Scotia, where Westward cruises in summer) sounds glamorous indeed, but aboard ship the glamour blurs. Students average only four hours of sleep a night and whirl through a torrent of classes, experiments and deck duties...