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...prodigious repertory won him world acclaim; of congestive heart failure; in London. A child prodigy, Curzon became a subprofessor at the Royal Academy of Music when he was 19. When asked to explain his musical ability he once said, "I practice and practice and work and work. I dare not take anything for granted...
Where body prophets like Patrice Donnelly dare to tread, ingenious profiteers are sure to follow. The sexy-fit look has generated a booming business. Pop songs like Newton-John's Physical and Diana Ross's Work That Body scampered up the charts. Exercise records have broken out of the vanity-house ghetto: Mickey's Mousercise has sold more than 350,000 copies. New magazines like Fit and New Body are preaching an enlightened narcissism. Fitness gurus, from Richard Simmons to Kathy Smith to that rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone...
Despite the possible resolution of the Cities Service crisis, Wall Street is still bitter toward Gulf. Grumbles one trader: "How does a company with Gulfs standing in the corporate community dare to lock itself into a $5 billion deal and then change its mind?" Ironically, Gulf was originally cast as the hero in the Cities Service drama. In June Cities Service was trying to escape an unwanted takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum, a relatively small Amarillo, Texas, oil firm. Unwilling to be controlled by a company less than one-twentieth its size, Cities welcomed Gulfs merger bid of $5 billion...
Whether or not the Polish people dare respond to that call with widespread demonstrations, knowing that their jobs may be at stake, they have already made it clear that they are resigned neither to martial law nor to the permanent end of the democratic "renewal" that swept their nation for 16 months...
...dare not print--nay, even think--what you might exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...