Word: madison
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Under normal circumstances, Madison Avenue would love Augustine Gizzi, a New Jersey truck driver and a true believer in advertising slogans. Trouble is, Gizzi not only believes, he goes out and acts on his beliefs. As a result, he has cast a legal pall over scores of sloganeers ranging from Avis ("We try harder") to Westinghouse ("You can be sure...
...fewer applicants to choose from. Harvard is not alone. Overall Ivy League applications are down about 6%, with the dips ranging from 3% at Princeton to 18% at Yale. In fact, this phenomenon is nationwide. At both Ohio State and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, for example, would-be freshmen have decreased by 24%-in a year when U.S. high school graduates are expected to increase...
...rolled into Providence at 6 p. m. I wandered into Brown's shiny miniature Madison Square Garden and looked up to see 1500 fans jammed into the student section two hours before the game, munching subs, reading biology, and getting psyched for the game. Harvard has Section 18 and a lot of polite clapping. Brown has 1500 screaming maniacs...
...MARILYN Ross Madison...
...declined a dinner invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt because he was to be seated below the Attorney General. Albert has none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President James Madison), or the arrogance of Thomas Reed (whose highhanded use of House rules made him a virtual czar in the 1890s). Albert would most like to emulate his longtime Southwestern neighbor, the late Sam Rayburn. The canny Texan was the kind of Speaker who always insisted that "I haven't served...