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...unorthodox Doyle Dane Bernbach-jointly lectured Avis employees in 300 cities to impress on counter girls and car attendants the need for that hard Avis try. They made employees fill out check lists that guard against empty gas tanks, dirty ashtrays and smudged mirrors, passed out "We try harder" lapel buttons...
Russell gave way to Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the Johnson Administration's floor manager for the bill. In his lapel Humphrey wore a red rose like a battle standard. "The Constitution of the United States is on trial," he said. "The question is whether we will have two types of citizenship in this nation, or first-class citizenship...
...Charlie, by James Baldwin, sabotages most of its own good purposes. It means to be an eloquent cry from the heart of the Negro's hurt but spends itself showering rhetorical spleen on the white man. It aims to seize the conscience but grabs the playgoer's lapel instead, like a standing grievance committee. It strives to be fresh, but its story of Southern shotgun justice is overly familiar, and what powers Mr. Charlie is not its topical subject but a contemporary mood, the taut-nerved spirit of violence that seethes through the play's language...
Last week's combined Harvard-Radcliffe SNCC fund drive netted over $2000. The money was collected throughout the University through the sale of lapel-buttons and folk song records and was sent to Atlanta this week to help defray the costs incurred by SNCC workers in the field...
...both the Army and the Marines. By the time he was 19, Mike had served in three branches of the armed forces, never rising above the rank of private first class, and was the youngest Montanan in the war. He still wears the Marines' discharge button in his lapel...