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Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, yesterday discussed plans for his study of the House System with members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). The study, funded by a $25,000 grant from the ESSO Education Foundation, will be made available on a national basis when it is completed...
...screen with nonevents, all the while knowing that "The Wad," as he calls the general public, will always watch something rather than nothing-and indeed be soothed by it. Mailer seems both fascinated by and resigned to the power of mass noncommunication. He even offers the possibility that Esso is changing its name to Exxon because it sounds like Nixon. This seems farfetched, although one recalls that 20 years ago Mr. Clean was created to resemble President Eisenhower...
Along with Coke, Jeep, Mace, Band-Aid and Levi's, one of the world's most famous trademarks is Esso. It is used by Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) in foreign countries and many parts of the U.S., where Esso is the trademark of the domestic operating arm, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Trouble is, legal restrictions following the 1911 breakup of the old Standard Oil trust have barred Humble from brandishing the Esso name in 20 states. In parts of the South and West, the company uses the label Enco, or, in Ohio, Humble...
...have confronted pollution with great aplomb in their advertising, but they have taken little action to change actual shipboard procedures such as cleaning cargo tanks at sea. There were no black officers aboard any of the ships I was on, though there were many unlicensed black seamen. Gulf, Texaco, Esso, and other major tanker operators control the hiring of their ships' officers through their front offices, while the unlicensed crewmembers usually come at random from a union hall...
Cazale, 36, has scuffled along from acting classes at Boston University to the Charles Playhouse to the inevitable stint off-Broadway, where he paid the rent between acting jobs by becoming a photographer. He was also an office messenger at the Esso Building in Rockefeller Center. There one of his fellow messengers was a struggling actor named Al Pacino...