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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Lance keeps busy giving cornpone, populist TV news commentaries in Atlanta and doing a lot of traveling, constantly talking deals and making speeches. In Atlanta in January, he served as chairman of a $500-a-plate "Southern Salute to the President" that raised almost $1 million for the Democratic National Committee. Judging from the reception Lance gets, especially in the South, his reputation has not unduly suffered. At a recent fund-raising affair in Greensboro, N.C., Lance shared the platform with Vice President Walter Mondale. The supposedly disgraced banker was introduced by a local pol as "the best thing...
...glass of raw blood every day, a plate of calves' brains washed down with a beer thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...
...Last year you told of the varsity library team grappling with World War I draft evaders. And there was some sort of fall rodeo up in Hanover, New Hampshire. In the dead of winter the startling eat squad made it through salad plate...
...Detroit's automakers, success is measured by how many cars they sell in a year. The industry takes its pulse regularly, in ten-day intervals, by reporting deliveries of new vehicles by manufacturer and name plate. Those figures can be cause for smiles or scowls, but right now they seem to be causing neither to any great extent. True, new-car sales were down during the Jan. 1-10 period, v. the same period a year ago-the sixth consecutive decline. But neither Detroit's automen nor Wall Street analysts seem particularly worried. As Dick Barrett, a Cadillac...
Chrysler started the model-year with only one new name plate and wound up 1977 with about 10% of the market, its lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...