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...often pussyfooted so softly that it was hard to tell just what they were selling. For an Oregon brewer they campaigned to "Keep Times Square Green"-with Oregon trees; for Paul Masson brandy they knocked vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?"); for a San Francisco FM radio station they dreamed up the Bach and Beethoven sweatshirts that swept the country...
...never flunk the Rooney colon test. Andy says he can spot an overly sober TV treatise merely by the colon in its title; for ex ample, "Somaliland: Case History of a People," His specialty is the light TV essay that extracts the significant from the commonplace. Does it bother him that Reasoner gets all the glory and earns about $200,000 compared with his $60,000? "Harry has never actually sent me for coffee," Andy jokes, "but he often says, 'If you're going to the cafeteria, get me coffee, will you?' Then, as if to flatter...
...figure it, my tutor will learn to live with student power--begrudgingly but nevertheless. He may even learn to live With Eldridge Cleaver, though I'm hedging my bets. But he won't learn to live with anything or anybody that sticks an axe in his face--so why bother? In America, for the time being, revolutions are to be sold rather than made...
...Mills' request that debate be limited to four hours and that no amendments be allowed. From there, it will go to the full House, where Mills and Byrnes are certain of passage this week. In fact, Mills is so sure of his votes that he did not even bother to take his usual meticulous head count...
...Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer for their branch of service, suffer fewer pangs than the wives of presumably less enthusiastic Army draftees. In recent months, widespread public discouragement over the Viet Nam war has begun to bother military wives. "A man will do anything, and his wife will cheerfully accept it, if there's a good reason," says another Pentagon admiral, "but if confidence in the worth of the job or activity is undermined, then trouble follows shortly...