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...important to Disney that the public buy the dreams he was selling if they were to be truly successful. Finally, Disney settled into comfortable maturity, ever maintaining his right wing politics, so much so that when Lyndon Johnson decorated the Great American, he wore a Goldwater button on his lapel where the President was supposed to affix an award...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Disney's Lands: Is the Shyster in the Back Room of Illusion? | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

...Amerasinghe, 58, Ceylon's chief U.N. delegate since 1967. An outgoing bachelor, Amerasinghe usually sports a pink rose in his lapel. His prime asset is that he is an Asian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The UN: A Man Who Casts No Shadow | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred investigations: attorneys general and other authorities in 30 states have started legal actions against him or his companies. The Iowa Supreme Court two weeks ago barred his major company from selling franchises in the state and condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTERS: Fast-Buck Gospel | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...students that came were there out of curiosity, not allegiance. This was no 1968 Gene McCarthy the-impossible-dream crowd. In even this early in the campaign, were lapel buttons worn for Candidate and other correct and animated, light-hearted as the faithful awaited arrival...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McCarthy: Requiem for a Lightweight | 11/16/1971 | See Source »

...name. Some users might not think it does; the product has a faintly antiseptic odor reminiscent of pine air fresheners. No matter; since Mennen introduced the product nationally on Oct. 11 ($2.50 for the lotion, $3.50 for the cologne), Cantwell has drenched the nation with TV and radio spots, lapel buttons and newspaper ads stressing the cologne's long-lasting effects ("a little Trouble in the morning and you've got Trouble all day long"). So far, Mennen reports sales doing exceptionally well. But officials will not know until Christmas if they have a winner or . . . well . . . trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smelling Trouble | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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