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...Marcucci was in trouble. His little Philadelphia recording company (Chancellor Records) had been cashing in on the slim voice of a skinny, second-rate Sinatra named Frankie Avalon. But now Avalon was 17 and beginning to outgrow his appeal for the jukebox set. Busy as he was with his search for a replacement. Bob Marcucci took time to rush to the home of a South Philadelphia neighbor when he saw an ambulance drive up. Policeman Domenic Forte had suffered a heart attack, and Bob stuck around to help. Suddenly he had a vision. He turned to the sick...
Stone Starter. The U.S. dairy industry issues a flood of calorific propaganda, blazoning on hundreds of thousands of cartons the legend, "You never outgrow your need for milk-drink three glasses of milk a day!" The message is illustrated with drawings of three generations of contented consumers. In the U.S. generally, adults are drinking far more milk as a table beverage than people in the rest of the world, where it is usually reserved for children and for cooking. What put the milk fat in the fire was a single change of rules in the Yale dining hall: instead...
...campaign will be as astronomical as its objective, but the men who lead it consider its success a national necessity. They point out that the earth's atmosphere is an insignificant film, thinner in proportion than the skin of an apple, and that military technology is about to outgrow it, as it outgrew the earth's surface two world wars ago. Navigation of the air-film is no longer enough. No nation will be safe unless it can also navigate the vacuum that hangs overhead...
While Schmidt maintained that "mankind will never outgrow" the need for minimal censorship, Patrick W. Malin, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed, "Bad may come of free speech, but we get so much else for it that it is worth a high price...
...sponsored courses for small-business executives. With better executive training, more generous rewards for talented men, and continued emphasis on the individual pride of accomplishment that has traditionally attracted U.S. businessmen to independent companies, most small-business leaders today are confident that they can outperform, even outgrow the biggest companies in the U.S. As one vice president said at a small-business seminar in Manhattan last week: "My company's bigger now than G.M. was 40 years...