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...authors even have a word of caution about the professional-looking service managers who greet drivers at the entrance to the service department of auto dealerships: they are often paid by commission and thus have powerful incentive to recommend unneeded repairs. If their persuasive salesmanship fails, they sometimes tack on unauthorized replacement orders. Many garages also make use of "flat-rate manuals" that list labor charges based on highly inflated estimates of the time it takes to do each job. If the repairs are finished in half the stipulated time, the fee remains the same-and the garage may hold...
...practiced cuing in Convention Hall. A mimeographed directive instructed the YVPs to cheer whenever youth was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever the President or the First Family was mentioned, and on and on. They were bused to the airport to greet the President, while a group of Vietnam Veterans Against the War was halted at the entrance to the field. They rallied 8000 strong on the night President Nixon was renominated so that they could hear Sammy Davis Jr., a Democrat, and then the President tell America, as they applauded wildly...
...fellow dancers sometimes openly laugh at his exaggerated, stalking movements and the way his arms tend to undulate like reeds under a river. Technically, he is solidly schooled, and his physical embodiment of a musical line is superb. Yet one choreographer, sardonically noting the audience roars and whistles that greet his appearances, says: "I think he goes onstage with only one mission: to present himself as a salable commodity. He tends to relegate everything else to second place...
...GREET AGNEW. Unfortunately for Horn, News makeup men inadvertently left out the paragraph reporting the protest bombings and the enforced turnout of pupils. Because the article as printed did not back up the headline, the government convicted Horn of practicing "negligent" journalism. Last week Horn, 60, who is in poor health, began serving a 28-week sentence. But authorities released him after two days pending an appeal...
While a State Department representative will greet Brandt, neither President Nixon, nor Secretary of State Willian P. Rogers will see Brandt. Henry A. Kissinger '50, the President's National Security Advisor, is vacationing with Nixon in Key Biscayne, Florida, and will not be here today...