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...Sekt (German champagne), nearly 78,000 West Berliners toasted the turn of the year with Red sector relatives. Those fortunate enough to have passes for both New Year's Eve and the day itself were permitted to spend the night in the East, and thus sleep off the loudest, happiest spree the divided city had experienced since the Wall went up 28 months ago. Others, overcome with fatigue and celebration, dashed back to beat the 5 a.m. witching hour-some of them in East German ambulances...
...wells, complained angrily that the total cost of the oil to the government oil company was now more than it once paid to import oil. This the private companies denied, and in the conflicting figures no one could be sure who was right, but the nationalists talked loudest...
...classic example took place in Los Angeles' sprawling San Fernando Valley, a municipal crazy quilt that has managed to absorb almost 1,000,000 densely packed residents without turning into a cohesive city. The Valley's loudest voice is a giveaway newspaper, the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying...
...months "coup" had been the loudest whisper heard in South Viet Nam. Coup is what correspondents and lesser U.S. officials talked in the bar at the Hotel Caravelle. Coup is what Diem and his guards feared in the palace. Coup is what the generals finally plotted in their headquarters...
...years ago, he has used polished presentations to woo and win blue-chip clients such as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Sears, Roebuck, and he has turned out sophisticated campaigns spotlighting the man in the Hathaway shirt and the Rolls-Royce, where "At Sixty Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise Comes from the Electric Clock." He was always ready to give an interviewer a phrase that would catch headlines, and to send progress reports on his agency to 600 business leaders who had never inquired about his progress in the first place. Now Ogilvy is 52, his reputation made...