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...share of the market. He has even been known to arrange for local record stores to feed competing stations false information about best-selling records. The bamboozled competitor plays losing tunes while Bennett's own station blasts out the real biggies. In that ultimate radio-ratings booster, the random phone-call contest, Bennett is like a child feeding ducks on a pond. At a station in Miami, he once handed out $125,000 in less than two months. Says Lloyd Melton, station manager of Phoenix's KUPD: "He gives contest money away to the extent that he virtually...
...GOOD OLD DAYS-THEY WERE TERRIBLE! by Otto L. Bettmann. 207 pages. Random House. $10. Otto Bettmann of the Bettmann (picture) Archive adds a needed dash of bitters to the nostalgia craze with this illustrated reminder that in the good old days (circa 1860 to 1910), pigs crowded people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street...
...play focuses around the drafting of Conrad Birdie, a teen-age rock star. Rosie, however, comes up with a way to turn the loss of her boss's only client into a financial bonanza--pick a Birdie fan at random for Conrad to kiss on the Ed Sullivan Show after singing his new song, "One Last Kiss." Rosie also wants Albert (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), her boss, to quit songwriting, break away from his protective mother, and become an English teacher. Her dreams all come to pass by the final curtain call...
However they explain the recent cooling, there are many observers who are not convinced that it is part of a long-term trend. Two Government experts, Donald Oilman and J. Murray Mitchell Jr., argue that it may only be a random fluctuation, rather than part of any fixed cycle. In fact until a few years ago, many scientists suspected that the earth would heat up, largely because of mankind's increasing output of carbon dioxide. A byproduct of fossil-fuel burning, the gas lets sunlight pass down through the atmosphere but prevents the escape of infra-red heat waves...
...eight out of ten times; on the other two rolls he declined to pick a number. The odds against his performing that feat by chance, Targ and Puthoff calculated, were about a million to one. Geller was also reported to have sketched remarkably accurate versions of drawings picked at random by researchers hidden in another room. Those claims, printed in Nature, did seem to make a case for extrasensory perception...