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...joined the Peace Corps in the first place because they did not feel ready to commit themselves to a semi-permanent job or professional school. Some volunteers had joined the system and realized that it was too restrictive for them. One volunteer in Guatemala had been an executive for Dun and Bradstreet, another had been an executive for an advertising firm in Manhattan, another had been an insurance salesman...
...scientists, who shaped the real character of American life. These, argues Boorstin, are the genuine "revolutionaries," and the book is studded with their biographies: Willis H. Carrier, who homogenized the country with air conditioning; Chester F. Carlson, the man who doomed the secret by inventing the Xerox system; R.G. Dun, the credit rating pioneer who made Everyman's private life the subject of public record...
Also elected were: Glenn M. Schwetz of Eliot House and Dun Ellen, N.J.; Robert M. Sedgewick Jr. of Quincy House and Dedham; Benjamin B. Sendor of Leverett House and Queens Village, N.Y.; Dennis L. Sepper of South House and Medina, Ohio; Theodore P. Seto of Dunster House and Teheran, Iran; Robert T. Skovbroten of Winthrop House and Red Wing, Minn.; Michael J. Smith of Currier House and Yonkers, N.Y.; and, Patrick J. Smith of Leverett House and Miami...
...dinner guest seated beside one of Nixon's wealthy friends tried to converse about the talent that the President had assembled. It was like getting a Dun & Bradstreet report. Each man's worth to the Republic was based on his portfolio. When someone raised doubts about Nixon Booster W. Clement Stone, an astonished White House staff member protested: "He must be great! They say he's made $200 million...
...hardly expected from The Crimson anything better than Dun Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...