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ANDY WARHOL, who struck out boldly into the high and far-off hinterlands of tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...
...resort operators and others in the home-front vacation business are bracing for a hot season. They expect cost-conscious families to flock to local resorts, which often have been bypassed in favor of far-off places. A need to escape urban tensions inexpensively has led to a surge in camping. Coleman Co. Inc., a manufacturer of outdoor equipment, reports profits up 26% in the first quarter...
Travel promotions, in the main, are moderating the usual paeans to fun in far-off places and playing on the consumer purse strings as never before. Typical is the current ad for British Overseas Airways, which depicts a young couple shopping in a supermarket under the folksy headline: "Honest, Jim and Maureen Cunningham, now you can afford to go to Britain." A year ago some ads for Eastern Air Lines were entirely given over to touting the smiles of the stewardesses; today Eastern's ads carefully specify price, service and routes. In 1969 Hertz highlighted its costlier car rentals...
Sense of Worth. For years, he explains, blacks found their sense of worth in Christianity. "If we were nothing here, at least we were children of God. At some far-off point in time, all these things would be rectified and we would get our golden slippers. Our religion had to mean more to us. We had to emote, we had to lose ourselves in it. We had to sing and shout, and after it was all over we had to have a big meal and have something going on Sunday afternoon. Because when Monday came, it was back...
...Fling on Broadway. In 1962 Levin, who once taught college mathematics courses, teamed up with Townsend, a former Union Carbide executive, in creating a company to buy computers from IBM and lease them to users at a discount. The firm prospered, and Levin began spreading into the far-off fields of restaurant franchising, real estate and Nevada gambling, in which he had no real management experience. After Levin-Townsend bought the Bonanza Hotel last March, Levin got into what gambling authorities described as a "childish feud" with Nathan S. Jacobson, who owned an important minority share in the hotel...