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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATORI IN PARIS, by Jack Kerouac. An account of a beat writer's ribald search for some noble French ancestors, told with gusto and amusing dropout grammar...
Barbara certainly did, but her special checking account registered near zero. To the rescue came her room mates, Mimi Feldt and Vivian Franco. Their solution: a party with a slogan: "Send Sobo to Spain!" By the hundreds, their dittoed orange invitations fluttered out over the District of Columbia: "The pleasure of your company is requested at a benefit party. Free beer and setups provided, plus band. Your contribution (of $1) will further the cause of international relations...
When Hertz gave its $7,500,000 account to the agency, the new strategy was almost immediately apparent to Ally. "Up to then," he says, "this had been a one-sided dialogue." Along with turning it into an argument, Ally also set out to see whether Avis' innuendoes-that Hertz had dirty ashtrays and sullen service-were true. Flying his own Beechcraft on an inspection trip, he toured airports, where most car rentals take place. At each stop, Ally says, he prowled through parking lots of both companies, emptying ashtrays into paper bags. "There wasn't an awful...
...Hertz take so long to hit back? Carl Ally, 42, head of a four-year-old agency that bears his name and now holds the Hertz account, explains the delay this way: "If a little guy comes up to you on the street and tugs at your coat and you swat him, everybody will say, 'You shouldn't have done that.' But if you walk on for 14 blocks and he keeps tugging, then people think you're justified to punch...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...