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...CRIMSON, Life, and McCall's all greeted The Harvard Strike by four reporters from WHRB, Harvard Radio (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, $6.95, paper $3.95) as the clearest, most factual and complete, exposition of the events of April 1969. Nonetheless, the CRIMSON said. " The Harvard Strike has a flaw: much of it is unreadable. Through a number of verbal and conceptual errors, the authors have smothered parts of their story in gooey, impenetrable prose. 'Boring' is too simple a term for the complex problems that plague the book, but readers may find the effect the same." Alumni with a truly unquenchable thirst...
LaRoche, McCaffrey & McCall has just picked up a half interest in Aqua Dynamics Corp. of Wareham, Mass., which cultivates oysters. Doyle Dane Bernbach agreed to purchase Snark Products Inc. (annual sales: $1,000,000), a New Jersey-based producer of low-priced ($125-$500) plastic-hulled sailboats. Quite naturally, the agency plans to handle Snark's advertising and capitalize on techniques that Chairman Bill Bernbach developed to plug a more famous low-priced product. D.D.B. hopes to establish Snark as "the Volkswagen of the sea." The agency also owns a 20% interest in Georg Jensen, an elegant Manhattan houseware...
...Howie, 17, was arrested in Greenwich Village for possessing hashish. Instead of cringing in embarrassment, Samuels called a family confab, took his children's advice and came out for liberalized marijuana laws. (Last week the charges against Howie were dropped.) Something similar befell Oregon's Republican Governor Tom McCall, whose son Sam, now 20, has battled heroin addiction since the age of 15. McCall still takes a dim view of all drugs. But now he feels "charitable" toward draft resisters and recently blasted Oregonians for refusing to lower the voting age to 19. He called the refusal a "tremendous victory...
COLD IRON by Robert Stone Pryor. 145 pages. McCall...
...Pasadena, Calif., having become deeply involved with the world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because the company felt the book's seamier sides would damage the author's standing with her regular readership. She then offered it to McCall, which brought it out under a nom de plume concocted from the name of her agent, Roberta Pryor...