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...last issue, the back of the Review contains the "Harvard Reports" section: a series of page-long surveys of work being done in such research centers as Biological Studies, East Asian Studies, Science and Government, and Cognitive Studies. These are distinctly valuable. Except for occasional Madison-Avenue splashes in the Alumni Bulletin, non-specialists have almost no way of learning what is transpiring in these centers...
...idea of liquidation differed from his partners': though he sold some holdings, he kept right on buying others (among the purchases: $25 million for Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel). Outraged, the British sent to New York a relay of executives, who camped out in Zeckendorf's Madison Avenue offices to try to halt his acquisitions. But, in his own inimitable way, Zeckendorf confounded the British Expeditionary Force. He made his deals at breakfast, while driving in his car, at midnight meetings-and sometimes tumbled his British directors out of bed at 3 a.m. by transatlantic phone...
Hair fashions that eliminate the part (an extra area of detectability) are most popular, the favorites being 1) the crew cut. 2) the "Madison Avenue" or Cary Grant look, 3) the "youthful tousled" or Tony Curtis look, and 4) the pompadour. Coming up fast: the JFK look. Prices range from...
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More Than Wings. Burns devotes nearly two-thirds of his book to tracing the historical development of this four-party pattern. He writes, "The congressional Democrats began as the Madison party in Congress and the presidential [Democratic] party was founded and built by Jefferson. The symbolic founder of the Republican presidential party was Abraham Lincoln; the congressional [Republican] party had its origin in the opposition to Pierce and Buchanan on the Hill during the 1850s and with the congressional Republicans who went on to fight Lincoln during the Civil War and to dominate Reconstruction...