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Wonderland is at least aptly named. It is a haven for the eternal optimist, the guy who's been down so long it looks like up to him. A mechanic from Kentucky bets on dogs with girls' names. An old man goes through a complicated rigamarole with the serial number on a dollar bill to get his number. A haidresser's assistant visits a clairvoyant to get her bets for the week...
...think this country is going to collapse," wailed a Michigan dairy farmer. If House Minority Leader Gerald Ford were not an optimist-and an ambitious Republican to boot-he might have thought so too, after four days of listening to dysphoric constituents in Michigan's Fifth District. "Never in my 19 years in Congress," said Jerry Ford at the end of a pulse-taking tour last week, "have I seen people so disturbed...
...books, his catchy advertising copy, and his cheer fully uncomplicated politics, made Barton, son of a circuit-riding Tennessee preacher, one of the great evangelists of his day. From World War I until last week, when he died in Manhattan at 80, he remained an unspoiled and influential American optimist...
Wonderland is at least aptly named. It is a haven for the eternal optimist, the guy who's been down so long it looks like up to him. A mechanic from Kentucky bets on dogs with girls' names. An old man goes through a complicated rigamarole with the serial number on a dollar bill to get his number. A hairdresser's assistant visits a clairvoyant to get her bets for the week...
Hungarian Immigrant Morris Rich was a naturalized optimist. Who else would have opened a dry goods store in devastated Atlanta, Ga., in the grim postwar year of 1867. Yet even Rich would be amazed to see how far his "M. Rich Dry Goods Store" has come. Last week, presiding over its centennial-year annual meeting, Grandson Richard H. Rich, 65, the present chairman and chief executive, ticked off statistics. Rich's last year rang up sales of $148 million for a 12.9% gain over the previous year (v. 3% for U.S. retailers in general) and showed earnings...