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...songs as a safety valve for the rebellious. Besides, many are patriotic." Still, as Allen points out, the Soviet authorities are not exactly delighted about the trend. Recently, tapes acquired in Russia by a few Western tourists have been seized by Soviet customs. The government has also tried to divert the public's attention from the biting new ballads by reissuing old favorites on records, like pre-revolutionary gypsy tunes, that were officially denounced as decadent until recently...
Unhappy Clients. Some advertisers disapprove of agencies' diversification moves, fearing that they will divert management attention from client services. Last year Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert pulled out of P.K.L. Companies Inc. (formerly Papert, Koenig, Lois) partly because they were unhappy with the agency's acquisition of a motorbike company. Century Cycles. .Critics who foresaw disaster when agencies began going public now argue that admen venturing into new fields will fail because they lack experience in production, distribution or retailing...
...Louise Day Hicks, 47, a nearly successful candidate for mayor of Boston, is now running as a Democrat for the House. She wants to end the war and divert that money and funds from the space program to cities. She has been endorsed by the Boston locals of the International Longshoremen's Association as "man enough for us," a phrase that would anger many a Women's Lib militant, but pleases the hard-nosed Mrs. Hicks...
...partnership has obvious benefits for the politician, in supplying him with manpower for ringing doorbells or collecting signatures on petitions. For the college administrations, the official or unofficial sanction of electoral efforts through the donation of office space, materials, or free time to the students may serve to divert attention away from the war-related activities that go on every day within the confines of the university. Such a strategy succeeds if it can significantly dilute student actions and protests against ROTC and military research...
...certain that they know why. The new missiles were tuned to a new range of frequencies, and the electronic countermeasure (ECM) devices carried by Israeli jets to spoof or confuse attacking missiles were not capable of picking up those frequencies. The Phantom pilots, wrongly assuming that their ECMs would divert onrushing missiles, were unable to take evasive action in time...