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...device is made by Macom Products Corp., a firm that was started in August. Its founder and chief, Howard Mercer, 29, a former ski instructor and disk jockey, teamed up with two Mattel toy executives and designed the device. From August through October, Macom earned $281,000 before taxes, on sales...
...fell way short of that figure, totaling only $10,000. Alumni donations have remained at this disappointingly low level ever since. Last year only 350 contributions were made by 8500 alumni who had been connected with PBH while in college. This year, the Friends Committee, now headed by Douglas Mercer'40, will conduct a more organized and aggressive drive. Although PBH officers hope that this year's drive will be more effective., past experience makes a significant increase in alumni donations doubtful...
...even from Bedlam. Janice, submitted to electric shock and heavy drugs, retreats ever deeper into her dark private world, until at film's end, standing lost and mute, she faces a class full of bored medical students. It is clear that Director Ken Loach (Kes) and Scenarist David Mercer (Morgan) intend their movie to be a plea for greater flexibility and experimentation in the treatment of mental disorders. Wednesday's Child is a vigorous indictment, but Loach and Mercer might have made their points even more forcefully if they had remained a little more dispassionate...
...finals, Stuart and Morgan faced another Yale team, the unseeded Auchincloss and Mercer, which had upset a second-seeded Mt. Holyoke team earlier in the competition. The Cliffies had to come from behind in both sets (3-5, 1-5) before pulling out a hair-raising 7-5, 7-6 match...
...YORK TIMES Book Review piece last fall on Joseph Lash's Fleanor and Franklin. Professor Frank Freidel scolded gossips who place too much emphasis on the Lucy Mercer affair because "they lose sight of a larger significance: the solidarity and effectiveness of the Roosevelt marriage in the area of politics and reform." Those with a similarly enlightened view of the political potential for male-female relationships in modern American society will give thanks that at least one Harvard publishing unit is still willing to lose money on an item of political and social importance--such as this complete collection...