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...final chapter of a dream that began many falls ago in suburban peewee league. There are a few stalwart individuals, however, who resist the forces of the outside world and continue to don their pads and fishnet jerseys long after graduation day. One such rugged individual is Paul Erickson, Quincy House resident tutor in English and Harvard's oldest living House football player...
...Erickson, Dial's editor, disagrees. "For years the Government has granted tax advantages to organizations that use their profits for socially useful purposes," says he. "And public television serves a useful purpose." Nonprofit publications are exempt from most taxes and save up to 50% on postal rates -a big edge over for-profit magazines, whose postal bills have increased some 450% since 1971. These concessions are enjoyed by an increasingly broad range of publications. Of the 35,000 periodicals regularly sent through the mails, 10,000 or so now get some nonprofit subsidies. They range from shoestring religious...
...West. Says a West German defense expert: "In theory, strategy and tactics, Soviet military training is top grade." Especially admired are the senior commanders, such as Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 62, the Chief of Staff, and Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, 70, Commander of the Navy. Says Kremlinologist John Erickson, director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh: "They are very able, very tough and on a par with the best military brains in the West...
Assessing the Afghan invasion, Edinburgh's Erickson says, "If Brezhnev had asked the general staff back in 1973: 'Can you carry off such a campaign?' the answer would have been no. Now the general staff says, 'We can.' This is a development that the Western alliance can ignore only at its peril...
...McCabe, president of the onetime boutique Scali, McCabe, Sloves "The giants are doing more good work than ever before." Last week Advertising Age, the industry's Guide Michelin, cited the 25 outstanding television ads of 1979. The winners included pillars of the business: J. Walter Thompson, McCann-Erickson, Doyle Dane Bernbach and the one that competitors now call "the quiet waking giant," NW Ayer...