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Rotted Roof. Next the Fox and several friends began hanging enormous signs from barns and highway overpasses accusing various companies of polluting. One night the Fox decided to plug the chimney of an Aurora aluminum processing plant. He nearly fell through the factory roof, which he claims had been rotted by corrosive fumes. He hit the company once more, by crawling into the plant's septic tank and plugging the inlet...
...still clung to the off-tackle, end sweep, halfback option cycle that had brought the Crimson ten consecutive winning seasons and a share of three Ivy titles. The system is viable, provided you have material than can overpower the opposition. If you don't, the opposition needs only to plug the middle or cover the ends at the appropriate downs, and you lose. It had gotten to be a common joke that you only needed one Harvard game film to tell you what the Crimson was going to throw at you. And it didn't really matter what year...
...oysters. Doyle Dane Bernbach agreed to purchase Snark Products Inc. (annual sales: $1,000,000), a New Jersey-based producer of low-priced ($125-$500) plastic-hulled sailboats. Quite naturally, the agency plans to handle Snark's advertising and capitalize on techniques that Chairman Bill Bernbach developed to plug a more famous low-priced product. D.D.B. hopes to establish Snark as "the Volkswagen of the sea." The agency also owns a 20% interest in Georg Jensen, an elegant Manhattan houseware and silver store; last year D.D.B. agreed to buy a small ice cream producer, Frose-Mar Corp...
...promote the Pinto, Ford is also offering buyers a simple, key-shaped tool that it claims serves 27 purposes, from measuring the gap between electrodes on a spark plug to stripping wire and turning regular and Phillips screws. Not to be outdone, G.M. suggests that, with its illustrated and simplified manual, the Vega owner will need only a few tools: wrench, screwdriver, coat hanger, garden hose and-to replace transmission and rear-axle fluids-a turkey baster...
...JUST A FEW weeks ago Joan Baez looked back through time to pluck an anecdote from her repertoire. She had called a press conference to plug an about-to-be-released documentary film about the trials and tribulations the Harris' (Joan and her husband David) had faced in the past year. One reporter had asked her, "Has your husband ever really been followed by government agents?" Her head was quick to nod "yes" and she said "David once had a brown Pontiac following him everywhere. Finally, when we were out in the desert. David stopped, got out, and went back...