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DIED. Raymond Rubicam, 85. enterprising co-founder and former chairman of Young & Rubicam, the nation's largest ad agency; in Scottsdale. Ariz. Kept waiting nine days in the outer office of a Philadelphia firm where he looked for his first advertising job, Rubicam wrote a scathing letter that launched his career. Always a forceful writer, he ceaselessly sought fresh, strong ad copy when he formed his own agency with John Orr Young. He also introduced to advertising the concept of market research when he hired a then unknown George Gallup to conduct consumer polls...
Jimmy Carter may be at the most critical juncture of his presidency. The deep strains of his nature run as strong as they always have. But his mind has expanded, his outer edges softened and modulated. He is part insider and part outsider now, a man with a better feel of the power he has, but one startled by the power he does not have. He is still searching for his formula for success, told by many he is failing but convinced he is on the edge of comprehension and the beginning of a journey upward...
First position first. Place heels together and splay the feet until they point in opposite directions. Fine, but keep those legs touching, no bowing at the knees! In passing, note the ripples of protest that exfoliate up from the ankles through knees to outer thighs, the pebbly grind of hip sockets trying to accommodate swiveling joints. Good. Tendons, sinews, muscles and bones should now unite in sending an urgent message to the brain. Ouch! Wait a nanosecond for the translation. Here it comes: "Cut it out, will you? People were not built to stand this way. " Disregard this perfectly valid...
Major religious thinkers have yet to give serious attention to the issues posed by what some call "exotheology" (the theology of outer space). Perhaps they are waiting for the first UFOs to land, but more likely they suppose that ultimately the discovery of other beings makes no difference. Even if the visitors turned out to look like bug-eyed monsters or gelatinous blobs, such species might serve to enlarge the vision of the Creator's creativity. To theologians the "image of God," after all, does not refer to the type of body that characterizes Homo sapiens...
...entire planet against the U.S. court's disgraceful sentencing of Johnny Harris on a fabricated charge," declared Tass. According to the Soviet news agency, a peasant from the South Russian region of Krasnodar described Harris' fate as "tantamount to a lynching!" As for the president of Outer Mongolian State University, he concluded that the Harris case proves American justice "is not worth a rap." From the frozen taiga of Siberian Yakutia came the informed opinion of Farm Worker I. Volkov that Harris' trial was "a gross violation of the Helsinki agreement." According to Oil Worker A. Pamuratov...