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...merchants and community groups around the Square be more than he and his co-workers could handle? They were up to their ears working on the Harvard Festival of the Arts, and yet feedback on their larger ideas was so strong that they were set on rechristening their unborn brainchild "The Harvard Square Arts Festival...
...Agnew. The scheme is the brainchild of one of the Republicans' most successful votegetters among the young, Tennessee Senator William Brock. In his 1970 race against Albert Gore, Brock carried the youth vote by a 2-to-l margin, despite Gore's dovish stance on the Viet Nam War. Brock won on 15 college campuses, losing just one and tying Gore in another. He is co-chairman of the Congressional Advisory Council for the Youth Division, and his former campaign manager, Kenneth Rietz, 30, is director of the Youth Division. With Brock on the advisory committee...
Thanks to a Canadian invention called the Oilevator, grimy beaches and greasy seagulls may soon be a thing of the past -provided the machine, nicknamed the "slick-licker," can get to the scene on time. The brainchild of Canadian Engineer Richard Sewell, the licker passed its biggest test last year when a tanker was grounded in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, and began gushing...
More Palatable. Op-Ed is the brainchild of Editorial Page Editor John Oakes, who for eight years before it began had been arguing in memos to the Times's publishers that the paper needed a wider range of opinions than its columnists provided. Publisher Arthur O. ("Punch") Sulzberger took the occasion of a price hike from 100 to 150 last fall to introduce Op-Ed, thereby giving readers a small bonus for their nickel. While Oakes has overall command, operating responsibility for the page rests with Harrison Salisbury. Last July, Salisbury started soliciting contributions for the page, offering...
...SOUND is the brainchild of Editor Roy Rowan, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE. A slick monthly that sells for $2, it is aimed at the 4,000,000 people who live on or near Long Island Sound. "Our readers are genuinely affluent, educated people," Rowan says, "who share a certain location and lifestyle and have common interests." Subject matter is a mixture of leisure and concerned ecology, stressing to Sound dwellers the joy of sailing on it or swim ming in it and the horrors of bilge-blowing tankers befouling...