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MILTON ALLEN, 20, a lanky guitarist out of Houston who represents RCA Victor's latest bid for the rocking teen-age market. A panting, heavy-dew singer, Milton was spotted by RCA fieldmen while he was stomping it out on local Houston radio shows. He was hustled to New York, shorn of his Elvis Presley locks, fitted into a grey flannel suit and photographed in Central Park, looking sincere. RCA is pushing him with the trade on two newly released singles: Just Look, Don't Touch, She's Mine and Love A, Love A Lover...
...starting ten, the attackmen, Dick Pille, John Neary, and Dick Eldridge have all played the game before as have the mid-fieldmen, Manuel Cabral, Jerry Pyle, and Mike Edwards. Two of the defensemen, Bob Fallon and Dave Stockwell are experienced but the third, John Grogan is a newcomer to the sport. The goalie, Chris Stone, has also had no previous experience...
...been happy to sell about $40,000 worth monthly of their cleaner-a compound of cellulose fiber (resembling sawdust) and various cleaning agents which can be rubbed into a rug, then brushed out bringing the dirt with it. After they got the word from Wallace, they hired three fieldmen and in a whirlwind, 21-day tour, set up a nationwide network of salesmen...
...carrying a welcoming committee of local bigwigs was ignobly stopped at the airport gates. Armed guards once warned Braniff employes that they would be arrested for trespassing if they attempted to enter the field to service their plane. At Vera Cruz, where a Braniff plane arrived after dark, C.M.A. fieldmen refused to switch on the landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences to enter the fields. C.M.A. parked trucks around...
Until recently, the farm project was confined to the South Pacific, where Ryerson and his 25 fieldmen also opened fisheries and started lumbering, by last spring were producing 250,000 board feet a day. But the program proved so satisfying that the Navy asked for the cultivation of 10,000 more acres in the Central Pacific as soon as the fighting moved on far enough. Eventually its chain of oversized victory gardens may reach all the way to Japan...