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...solo Atlantic sailor. Nonetheless, Ellerton F. Jette, 65, retiring this month as president of Maine's C. F. Hathaway Co., admitted that the original suggestion by Adman David Ogilvy to use an "injured man" as a symbol gave Jette the shudders. "Why stress an unfortunate aspect, such as partial blindness?" he asked. He soon found his answer: it sure sold shirts...
...partial understanding of Johnson, one has to go back to the harsh hill country of west-central Texas where he was born in 1908. Historian Walter Prescott Webb describes it as a land of "nauseating loneliness," whose inhabitants were "far from markets, burned by drought, beaten by hail, withered by hot winds, frozen by blizzards, eaten out by grasshoppers, exploited by capitalists and cozened by politicians...
Hartford does not think the modern artist has sinned inadvertently; he accuses the artist of callousness toward mankind and aggressive, destructive feelings toward society. For the Fauves, he believes, the impressionists' partial breakdown of nature "was the first taste of blood in the battle with civilization they desired." The "battle with civilization" has been raging ever since...
Qualified Endorsement. The British think they have a partial answer. Prime Minister Harold Wilson proposes to broaden the scope of MLF to include land-based missiles, three of five British Polaris subs, and various aircraft. This sprawling scheme would greatly dilute the German contribution...
...special stratum in between, a sort of nouveau niche. Mr. Goff is a lawyer, Mrs. Goff his first wife. Instead of an old-style town house or suburban estate, they have a wood-paneled-duplex city apartment. Like Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Goff, 33, is partial to Chanel, makes do at local shops and "the boutiques in New York, when it works out" between annual trips to Europe...