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Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch News Service who lived in Laos for four years reports that in the three years before June, 1966, Laos's exports totalled $3,000,000 while imports totalled $108,000,000--an import-export ratio of 36 to 1. Recent government reports say that the ratio between 1964 and 1968 was 14 to 1. Other reports run as high...
...command a list of the names of voters who support him-and thus require only his limited attention-or a "sway" list of independent and undecided voters, who should get more of his time. Properly programmed, the computer can identify subgroups by occupation, ethnic origin, even hobbies, then dispatch "personal" letters, circulars or telephone messages as needed. Surveys have shown that personal messages, even when identified as coming from a computer, are highly effective and often cheaper than television spots. One firm charges from $10,000 to $13,500 per congressional district; a one-minute TV commercial can cost...
...weekends heard the following recording: "Detroit city offices are closed at the present time, but will be open tomorrow during regular working hours. In the event of an emergency, call Mother Waddles at 925-0901." More than likely, the problem would have been taken care of with compassion and dispatch. Until a story in the Detroit Free Press embarrassed city officials, off-hours calls for financial aid, emotional assistance or emergency relief were referred to Mother Waddles, 59, a freelance philanthropist whom Mayor Roman Gribbs calls "an urban saint...
...cabled after a tour of the western front, "the Indian army seemed precise, old-fashioned and sane. The closer you get to the front, the more tea and cookies you get,' one American correspondent complained. But things get done. Convoys move up rapidly, artillery officers direct their fire with dispatch. Morale is extremely high, and Indian officers always refer to the Pakistanis, though rather condescendingly, as 'those chaps...
...arts lectures only to become one of the most eccentric patrons of the arts and builder of her own gargoyled museum. And now, the Fogg Art Museum is boasting its proud parentage of another avid student. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. '36, grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Pulitzer prizes...