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...guess we need help," admitted Coach George Wilson Sr. For all the careful planning and cute pep talks ("Let's win one for the Flipper"), his Miami Dolphins, playing their first sea son in the American Football League, still had not won a game. Quarterback Rick Norton, a $300,000 bonus rookie from the University of Kentucky, had been intercepted six times in five games. The Miami offense was averaging only 14 points a game, and the defense was taking a pounding. "Those poor boys no sooner come off the field and sit down," sighed Coach Wilson, "than...
...customers, piped music into their stables, ordered her grooms to treat the animals' cuts with Ardena Eight Hour Cream, massage their legs with Ardena Cleansing Cream. Because, or in spite, of this treatment, her Jet Pilot won the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Trackgoers remember her for post-time pep talks to her jocks in the paddock, when she exhorted them: "Get out in front and go, go, go!" They responded, and in much the same way as did her executives, when she pounded her fist on the desk and cried: "To get along in this world...
...although the parent company showed a $2,600,000 net loss last year, nobody-except perhaps a disgruntled stockholder or two-frets about the expenses of the yearly travel. Neither does the Internal Revenue Service, which accepts it as a business expense. Early mornings are devoted to sales pep talks at "The Gibson College for Profit"; the college awards diplomas. Gibson President Charles J. Gibson Jr., 46, holds awards luncheons, hands out Hollywood-type Oscars to supersalesmen. "They go over particularly well with the womenfolk," he says. Each planeload of 160 husbands and wives is briefed on next year...
...Pep Pills...
Barbiturates and pep pills cannot be made as easily as LSD, but FDA officials rate sales of these drugs as an even more widespread problem. They estimate that ten billion of the pills are sold in the U.S. every year, and that illegal trade on college campuses makes up a major part of the total...