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...disguise a Beautiful, and more likely than not the job will go to someone like Douglas Paul, a copywriter-turned-actor who has fat, freckles and a grandiose nose. Among Paul's starring roles: an Arrow Shirt commercial in which he stands stripped to the waist in a Laundromat, takes his wash 'n' wear shirt out of the dryer, nonchalantly puts it on and swaggers out the door through a crowd of oohing, aahing housewives...
...Strauss & Co. President Walter Haas Jr., who is selling products on an allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they can't look sloppy, no matter how hard they...
Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...
...obey the guidelines because they know that the FTC is tough to beat once it does go to court. The commission recently persuaded scores of sellers and advertisers to stop claiming falsely that products have been made by blind persons, exaggerating the profits that small investors can earn in Laundromat businesses, and enticing children to become salesmen by deceptive offers of "free" merchandise. Says Dixon: "I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's attitude of 'Come, let us reason together...
...land a plane in almost any weather without human help. A new "talking computer" at the New York Stock Exchange recently began providing instant stock quotations over a special telephone. In Chicago a drive-in computer center now processes information for customers while they wait, much as in a Laundromat. The New York Central recently scored a first among the world's railroads by installing computer-fed TV devices that will provide instant information on the location of any of the 125,000 freight cars on the road's 10,000 miles of track...