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...Noise from Winnetka. On the surface, the chances of success for that initiative did not appear high last week. No sooner had Rogers returned from his swing through the Middle East than Jordan's King Hussein disinterred an old Arab vow "not to give up one inch of Arab land." Sadat, on a visit to the Suez front early in the week, placated army officers by telling them that the chances of peace were no more than 1 in 100. Some Israelis were likening Rogers' visit to a 1940s popular song: "Big noise blew in from Winnetka...
...monstrous red tongue coils sadistically from the label of a new rock LP called Sticky Fingers. On the jacket, the waist-to-thigh portion of a man's jeans has been caught in a moment of rakish nonchalance. In the appropriate place, a working four-inch zipper hangs invitingly. Beneath the zipper lies another waist-to-thigh photograph, this one naked save for a pair of white jockey shorts and bearing the logotype of the noted dispose-all artist, Andy Warhol (see ART). As a record-store attraction, the album is positively too dreadful to ignore...
...Paul á St. Rémy, joined the no longer select club of certified million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility when Degas first exhibited it in 1881 that he never exhibited...
...part of Merita's marketing strategy has been to target carefully specific products toward individual foreign markets. In the British color-TV market, for example, he has chosen to compete on price instead of screen size. The least expensive British-made set is a 19-inch model, and only 10% of the TV households have color. By importing a 13-inch set, Morita figured that he could save enough on production and shipping costs to get the price down to $480 and bring color TV into the reach of many more British families...
Three youths, one armed with a six-inch knife according to an eyewitness, were let into Barnard by unsuspecting South House residents. They rang the bell of the door facing the Radcliffe Quad for about 15 minutes, and were refused admittance by several students before entering the dorm, said Liss Jeffry '73, who observed the scene from a fourth-floor window...