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...Playboy photographer? What's this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success do to his ego? Last week everybody in the pop world was tuning in to find out as Kris and Rita took to the road for a two-month, 23-concert joint tour...
...rate, the recent nostalgia boom in the musical theatre continues apace. The Spingold Theatre at Brandeis University has just kicked off its summer season by offering a sprightly production of Sweet Adeline, the 1929 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, imported from a two-month run at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut...
Carter's preparations have been extensive. Convinced that every problem can be made "manageable" with sufficient homework, he set aside ample time to get ready for the conference. Fresh from a two-month speed-reading course, he whizzed through a thick CIA report on the economic outlook for 24 non-Communist industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel...
...cutting showers down to one a week, restricting toilet flushing, and doing laundry by hand, most residential users are able to live within the restrictions. But commercial establishments took a bath. Ondine's, an internationally known French restaurant in Sausalito, got a two-month water bill for $645 -doubly galling since one of its attractions is its waterfront location. But that was nothing compared with a hotel that owed $4,153 and an ice cream parlor billed...
...committee's two-month delay in voting on Champion's nomination, however, pointed up the superficial and generally unsatisfactory nature of the Senate confirmation process. In late February, the Finance Committee staff brought out serious allegations of malfeasance on the part of Champion and his boss, HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. If true, charges that Califano and Champion tried to impede an HEW investigation of Medicare fraud in California--bowing to pressure from the state's governor and Congressional delegation--should raise questions about their integrity and interpretation of the public interest...