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...Convention: How 55 strong-minded "demigods" actually drafted the Constitution in the hot summer of 1787. Living: Across the country, the Bicentennial inspires revelry, pageantry and serious debate. -- What if the Founding Fathers were to face a modern media blitz? Food: Philly is a cradle of American cuisine...
...Commission, a consortium of 23 member nations, is spending $50 million this year to promote Europe to Americans as "one of the safest travel destinations," while the Swiss National Tourist Office has mounted a $1 million publicity campaign that stresses Switzerland's "stability and tranquillity." A $3 million advertising blitz touting the pleasures of Greece includes a series of TV commercials, first aired last year, in which such all- American personalities as Cliff Robertson, Lloyd Bridges and Sally Struthers tell their compatriots, "I'm going home . . . to Greece...
...began a government-sponsored "condom campaign" two months ago to encourage the use of prophylactics during sex, and continues to provide free sterilized needles to drug addicts. In Britain, where 750 AIDS cases had been reported by last month, the government last November allocated $32 million to produce a blitz of warnings and advice. Billboards were erected across the country that read AIDS: DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE. Now, however, the London government has begun to question its approach. A recent study has concluded that the campaign needlessly raised general anxieties about AIDS but missed those individuals in population groups...
...about their vain attempts to get the U.S. Government off the ground. Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912. Orville survived him by 36 years, or long enough to see his Flyer evolve into both a bonanza and a vehicle of immense destruction. He could not have foreseen the blitz or Hiroshima, but he obviously accepted all the risks of flying. In any event, his sympathetic and thorough biographer notes that Orville Wright never carried any insurance...
State President Botha appealed to white fears with a law-and-order campaign. He touched nationalist sentiment by frequently telling foreigners to butt out of South African affairs. Through a heavy newspaper advertising blitz, reinforced by intensive coverage on national television, the government charged that the P.F.P. was soft on terrorism and Communism and ready to sell out white South Africa to the country's blacks. The Afrikaans-language press harped on the same theme, making much of a photograph of P.F.P. Stalwart Helen Suzman being embraced by Winnie Mandela, wife of the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela...