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...possible U.S. boycott, many retail stores have stopped ordering the souvenirs, and production has halted on some items. For example, US Americans, a firm based in Los Angeles, is stuck with an order of 15.5 million plain drinking glasses; until the boycott issue is resolved, the company does not dare follow through on plans to imprint the Moscow Games insignia on them. Groused Blum: "The sales being blown away are between $50 million and $100 million. Premium promotions are hurting because companies don't want to be identified with things that have 'Moscow' written on them." Whatever...
Reverend Kimball talks of his impression of the intensity of the Iranian people's hatred for the deposed Shah. Did he meet any of the thousands and thousands of intellectuals and ordinary Iranians who are confined to their homes and dare not open their mouths, and who are praying for the right time to come? Did he have the opportunity to meet and know the traditional bazaris (the businessmen in the town marketplaces)? How does he evaluate the intensity of this hatred then? Was his visit an organized tour where he saw only what the authorities wanted...
...price of being a public figure is to be pursued by a persistent journalist demanding private interviews for a full personality study. Dare the public figure refuse? Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's National Security Adviser, tried and got the treatment. Sally Quinn's three-part series in the Washington Post damaged Brzezinski in passing, but it damaged the Post even more. The Post is one of the nation's best papers, though nowadays it often seems excessively bent on topping its Watergate success...
Medleval and Rensissance Music--Dare Wood and Natalie Palme: Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle...
...dare Richard Schickel say Star Trek's popularity is a "cult vogue among the half-educated"? I'll put my college degrees up against his any day. I hope Mr. Schickel, who I'm sure is a Klingon, falls into a black hole...