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...cocked, and we can handle any political ammunition we get." Every Sunday, in downtown Washington's Cafritz Building, Burch convenes a steering committee that includes Campaign Director Denison Kitchel and such experienced political pros as New York's Len Hall, Ohio's Ray Bliss and California's Bill Knowland, to review and plot progress. They study polls, preview ad drives, advise on policy, and discuss what to do about the chronic shortage of campaign funds. Already, the top advisers have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total...
Onward he went, this time to wheel a helicopter up and out of view, and back again. A helicopter is a perverse and difficult craft; a pilot has to use both hands and feet, and even the pros consider them miserable things to handle. "This fellow did a masterly job," said FAA Supervisor Joe Princen. Said Gregory: "I am probably supposed to have been nervous, but I wasn...
Pledges & Tithing. Catholics also go for professional fund raisers, hired for a fee. In the Washington Diocese, about 80% of the fund raising for major projects is done by pros, says Auxiliary Bishop John Spence. Recognizing the growing role of professionalism, the Methodists' American University in Washington awards M.A.s and Ph.D.s in church business management. But some Protestant clergymen now tend to think that professional fund raising is counterproductive. Says the Rev. Theodore Palmquist: "Our people don't like to give when they know that 10% of their money will go to professionals...
...sculptures are built on Emeryville's bay-side mud flats from driftwood, discarded tires, broken toys, beer cans, jugs and other rubbish - treasures of pop art, and readily come by because a high proportion of bay debris washes up there. The artists are amateurs, art students or real pros. Singly or in expeditions, they come clad in jeans and bikinis and armed with tools, nails and beer, to squish out across the oozing, odorous, umber mud and whack away at the driftwood. They use only what they find, in deference to the DUMP NO RUBBISH sign...
...Chicago Bears pro football team: the 31st annual College All-Star game, 28-17, before 65,000 fans in Soldier Field, Chicago. The burly Na tional Football League champions were out to restore the pros' pride tarnished in 1963 when the collegians (actually the year's crop of pro rookies) rudely upset the Green Bay Packers. But for the first 30 minutes it looked as if an other upset was in the making. With Miami Quarterback George Mira tossing bombs and Arizona State Halfback Charlie Taylor crunching through the line, the All Stars actually...