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With animals now so popular on Madison Avenue, the inevitable has happened: they are organizing. California Trainer Ralph Heifer has formed the Animal Guild of America. The union's initial demand is that animals receive residuals, the fees that human actors earn each time their commercials appear on the air. At present they receive only one-time flat fees. If animals are not accorded equal rights, Heifer warns, a beastly nationwide strike may be in the offing...
...parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped with a business degree and a modicum of ambition, he sets out for "the most dazzling job in the world"-as an advertising man. Madison Avenue finds him the least dazzling candidate in New York, so Steve heads toward Los Angeles, where hey know how to do bittersweet by the numbers: No. 1, the rise to the summit via award-winning ads. No. 2, the beautiful wife whose wealthy parents are so assimilated they mispronounce...
...been a long march from the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire, from the time when George Bush had the "Big Mo" and Ted Kennedy seemed to have the Democratic nomination for the asking, even from the balloons and ballyhoo of Cobo Hall and Madison Square Garden. As Campaign '80 finally and mercifully came down to a matter of days, the end at last in sight, two factors loomed as potentially decisive. One was the revival of the hostage drama, the other the debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Both, coming so late in the game, threatened...
...parties are places for the conduct of business, not discourse. That is just as well. Henry James romantically regarded Washington as the "city of conversation." It would be interesting to see what he would make of the arcane political chitchat that fills lunch hours at Sans Souci and the Madison...
...Mobilization for Survival, the American Friends Service Committee and several other groups are sponsoring the question, which has received little publicity and no opposition. The referendum has already passed in Berkeley, California and Madison, Wisconsin...