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Spurred by mounting public alarm over smog-choked cities and a generally threatened ecology, the gasoline producers are dashing to establish their credentials as nature's protectors. They are not alone. Environmental control has become one of the hottest themes on Madison Avenue, and it now appears in ads for firms as disparate as Westinghouse, International Paper and Procter & Gamble. What is the reason? "It is partly conscience and partly good business," says Adman James Durfee, president of Carl Ally, Inc. Adds Kenyon & Eckhardt's Sam Spilo: "It is fear. Businessmen see their corporations threatened for fouling...
Black Sales. Cooperating with Con Ed were many stores, office buildings and apartment houses throughout the city. The 75,000-watt sign on the Allied Chemical tower in Times Square was darkened, though almost every other light in the Great White Way blazed as usual. On Madison Avenue, several boutiques decided that air conditioning was more important than lights and conducted black sales: customers tried on clothes in the dark...
...diplomat and the cunning of a spy. They shun publicity, they do not have public openings or exhibitions, they most definitely do not open their doors to the hordes of art-loving housewives who trek up and down Manhattan from 57th Street to the upper reaches of Madison Avenue "doing the galleries" on Saturday afternoons. Few people even know they exist...
...tour of Capitol Hill, Senator Hugh Scott reminded Charles that a Dolley Madison mirror hanging in Vice President Spiro Agnew's ceremonial office was from the days "when your ancestors burned the White House," and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond gave the prince his senatorial calling card. Anne perked up briefly to offer the undiplomatic, yet reasonable observation that the bald eagle was "rather a bad choice" as the American national symbol. The royal pair asked why it had been selected, and none of their escorts, who included House Speaker John McCormack and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
...monsters that the Navy alone has spawned: EP-DOPAC (Enlisted Personnel Distribution Office-Pacific Fleet) and PAMIPAC (Personnel Accounting Machine Installation-Pacific Fleet). Worse, they have now grown so prolific that MAD may stand for anything from Mutual Assured Destruction to the New York Stock Exchange symbol for the Madison Fund -with 13 other alternatives in between...