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...time when many agencies are still trying to shake off the effects of the recession. In 1970 the bottom fell out, profits plunged, and an estimated 10% of the agency-business work force lost their jobs. Even now, few agency chiefs expect a buoyant year in 1972. Says Foote Cone Belding President John O'Toole: "I see a gradual return to former levels-maybe not 1969 levels, maybe never those of 1969, but certainly in excess...
...grevious errors. I would probably draw up a completely different selection tomorrow. 1. Groove Me King Floyd 2. Maggie May Rod Stewart 3. Let's Stay Together Al Green 4. Do You Know What I Mean Lee Michaels 5. Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites 6. Want Ads Honey Cone 7. Brown Sugar-Bitch Rolling Stones 8. Nathan Jones Supremes 9. What's Going On Marvin Gaye 10. Where Did Our Love Go? Donnie Elbert 11. Tired of Being Alone Al Green 12. Never Can Say Goodbye Isaac Hayes-Jackson 5 13. American Pie Don McLean 14. Maggie Redbone...
...teachers are not making any immediate salary demands (present average is about $225 a week), and have not yet carried out the strike threat. One reason is their understandable fear that the company may go under if they do. Donald A. Lewis, a former senior vice president at Foote, Cone & Belding Communications Inc., who took over as FAS president in mid-May, is trying to rescue the firm by selling off some of its subsidiaries, among them the Evelyn Wood franchised speed-reading centers. Strike or not, unless Lewis can come up with $18 million to cover the firm...
Noticing a long-haired teen-ager eating an ice cream cone and chatting with a girl in a parked car, a policeman in Hyannis, Mass., told the youth to move on; the car was blocking traffic. "He appeared dazed and unsteady on his feet, and his eyes were bloodshot," the officer later explained. So he asked the youth if he was drunk. "No," said 17-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and, according to the cop, spat a mouthful of ice cream into his face. Hauled into court on a loitering charge (just two weeks after his one-year probation...
...Super C passes through blue-stem-grass country, where herds of beef cattle are fattened for slaughter. After a red sunset over the Kansas prairie, the engineer switches on the regular headlights and a rotating white Mars light, which cuts a circular cone through the dark. The shiny tops of the distant rails reflect the jewel-like green signals, a row of beckoning beacons in the night. Engineer O.K. Stewart remembers meeting a bobcat on the tracks one night. "Those old eyes were glowing as big as baseballs when we came around the curve," he says...