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Despite the current upturn, most agency chiefs agree with Marvin Sloves, president of Scali, McCabe, Sloves: "Advertising is going to continue to be a tough business in which to make a buck." Tight budgets, cautious clients and a wary buying public have wrought substantial changes in the way Madison Avenue operates...
Citizens now have some measure of protection against unsolicited sex mail. Anyone who does not want such mail can notify postal authorities. Other kinds of restraint may be possible. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should...
...baseball contract that guides and supplements the individual contracts the players sign. For the first time abandoning the reserve clause's perpetuity principle, they had proposed that every player be bound to a club for "eight and one"-eight years plus one to play out his option. But Marvin Miller, 58, the shrewd, tough executive director of the players' association, countered that he could not bargain away rights the arbitrator had already granted...
...year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing about this," joked Chub Feeney, MacPhail's opposite in the National League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit on bidding still left the players with less than the wide-open auction they had won from the arbitrator's ruling, said Miller, and he remained...
...Even Buffett knew how bad it was--he credited the song to a fictional "Marvin Gardens" who is listed as a band member under "Maracas and beer cans...