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...type booths, where some 20 different manufacturers are handing out literature and free samples. Overhead, airplanes trail banners that read HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY? and WELCOME TO MILLER TIME. Below, a catamaran emblazoned with the Schlitz brand name cruises by, followed by a fleet of sailboards that extol SALEM SPIRIT. At one of the 380 or so hotels that line the 23 miles of beach, John Bradley, 22, a recent Cornell graduate, is conducting poolside tug-of-war and trivia contests sponsored by Camel cigarettes while half a dozen pretty assistants distribute T shirts, hats and other souvenirs...
...Janeiro. There, a front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul at the time of the 1964 military coup. Brizola, who used to extol the virtues of Fidel Castro, has been cited by military men as one of the reasons that they seized power in the first place. At week's end Brizola was leading his P.D.S. opponent, 694,000 votes...
...There are many good reasons for wearing seat belts, "began a soleman-sounding announcer. "At General Motors, we think the best reason is love." The commercial went on to extol the life-saving benefits of buckling up before driving and concluded by reminding us of GM's long-standing commitment to auto safety. But in light of their struggle in recent years to prevent the requirement for automatic seat restraints. General Motors and the other auto makers have in fact established themselves as the nation's staunchest enemies of highway safety. By encouraging motorists to wear seat belts. GM, instead...
...defenses but found that its quarry-U.S. P.O.W.s held at the Son Tay prison camp-had been moved to parts unknown. In the Pentagon, Laird looked at the men around him, shattered by the failure of the mission, and ordered in to rush out and extol American bravery and determination. A plan that had yielded nothing somehow produced a sense of accomplishment anyway...
...were coming unstuck. His press conference was only his fifth as President, fewer than any other President in the past 50 years. Of course, such infrequency gives the Washington press corps fewer self-important opportunities to appear on national TV as vigilant public defenders. But some among them also extol press conferences as an inspired device to require more frequent public accounting by the President. The public, caring less, may feel it sees enough of the President on the evening news, and in this belief would be wrong...