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Keppel regularly runs through a nonstop, eleven-hour working day, conferring with the President or with HEW Secretary Gardner, calling weekend staff meetings, visiting schools, addressing meetings of the Chamber of Commerce or the United Jewish Appeal, or just about any interested group that shows a willingness to discuss the nation's education programs. He is for ever torn between the desire to proselytize and the need to be at his desk. "When a Congressman calls," he says, "I want to be there...
When Italian mothers wish to punish their children these days, they often warn: "Tonight you won't watch Carosello." The nightly eleven-minute TV show has a huge audience of both children and adults, despite the fact that it is nothing more than a nonstop commercial, peppered with jingles, cartoons and celebrity testimonials that hawk everything from Stock brandy to "Tiger in your tank." Carosello is but one reason why TV advertising, little known outside the U.S. a decade ago, has become a $775 million-a-year business in a dozen countries, from Finland to Japan. This year that...
...salute. On the pier a crowd of 20,000 cheered wildly, a band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, and the town's scarlet-robed mayor waited to extend official greetings. Said Robert N. Manry, 47, as he stepped from the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic nonstop: "I'm flabbergasted...
Tiny but Aggressive. With bus-schedule regularity, a weekly total of 1,105 nonstop flights shuttle between Los Angeles and San Francisco. United has assigned its three newest Boeing 727 jets exclusively to the route. Pacific Southwest has ordered five 727s and Western four 720B jets to throw into the battle. Both United and TWA have lowered their one-way jet coach fares from $23.70 to only $14.50 to compete with Western's rock-bottom $11.43 flights on venerable DC-6Bs. Western promptly lodged a protest with the Civil...
...fashioned kind that wrote for dirty words and **** for scenes of sex. What Selby scrupulously elides are all the pleasant moments of life. What's left, he tells in a style that will also inevitably be hailed as "tape-recorder realism"-because it mumbles like the nonstop mouthings of a drink-sodden bum or screams like a borderline psychotic...