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Quayle's handlers apparently take the journal seriously as well. When Werksman appeared on the Phil Donahue show, G.O.P. mediameister Roger Ailes and vice-presidential spokesman David Beckwith were on hand to defend their man as a heavyweight. Letters to the editor run both pro ("He's doing the best he can do with what God gave him") and con ("a yuppie Frankenstein...
Reaction has been mixed. Gary Hufbauer, a Georgetown University economist, estimates that a Social Security tax cut would create a million jobs and thus add a million extra contributors to the trust fund. But Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas warns against "soaking the rich." Says he: "We should be debating tax cuts, but we shouldn't mess with Social Security. The system isn't broke: don't fix it." The plan's critics argue that it could cost the federal government $50 billion a year in lost revenue, a claim challenged by Moynihan...
...companies bothered to respond, and Sokolof's follow-up telephone calls went largely unheeded. "When I said, 'I'm Phil Sokolof from Heart Savers,' " he recalls, "that was the same as saying, 'I'm Joe Blow from Podunk...
...food companies learned, Phil Sokolof was not a man to be ignored. In October 1988, they were confronted by full-page newspaper ads written and designed by Sokolof and headlined THE POISONING OF AMERICA! The text identified the poisoners: food processors who used tropical oils high in saturated fats. "We implore you. Do not buy products containing palm oil or coconut oil," the ads warned. "Your life may be at stake." Pictured below, to the horror of several major companies, was an assortment of some of + America's favorite brand-name foods...
...hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers remain loyal to the sassy Daily News, which over the years has been celebrated in song (by Frank Loesser and Phil Ochs, among others) and screenplay (its Art Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the Superman movies). For the tabloid's fans, Maxwell's moxie may prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht...