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When the trustees of Dartmouth College installed David McLaughlin as the school's 14th president in the summer of 1981, he seemed a perfect choice for a scholarly Ivy League bastion steeped in lusty, old-boy fellowship. Indeed, his persona glowed the deepest Dartmouth green: Phi Beta Kappa in the class of '54, wide receiver on the football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin...
...have dismantled many of the tariffs and quotas that once kept their markets off limits to foreign competition. But the removal has made little difference to foreign businessmen. Instead they find themselves up against an array of cultural and technical trade barriers, including a closed and cumbersome bureaucracy, an old-boy system of business contacts that is nearly impervious to outsiders, and a buy-Japan-first attitude in the marketplace. Says Robert G. Gressens, president of GTE International Inc., a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment: "We don't face any specific laws and regulations that we point...
Hart, as a loner who stands outside of the Washington old-boy network, skeptical of New Deal social programs and U.S. intervention abroad, naturally appeals to this group. He began courting it in his first Senate race in 1974 with a blunt campaign slogan: "They've Had Their Turn. Now It's Ours...
...Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets of wisdom. Moon and McDonald's are, in fact, recurring themes throughout. And if we're talking themes, Ring Around the Collar, South Pacific, the Pi Eta Speaker's Club, breakfast cereals, old-boy networks, the Harvard Krokodiloes, and alligator/crocodile phenomena in general also undergo rigorous analysis...
...League College so the growing look of confusion on his face was understandable. What was he to make of the significance of eight alligator heads or of one character's being offered a Pi Eta cocktail (40 beers in 30 seconds)? The clever lyrics about the old-boy network, which brought lumpen to the throats of the bourgeoisie, left him cold...