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...Certainly not," begin the Wrigley ads in Britain's quality newspapers and magazines, agreeing that in court or railway carriage no proper Englishmen should ever think of chewing gum. But the ads go on to reassure gum-shy Britons that at other times, in other places, gum is not only acceptable but "a definite aid to oral hygiene." Far more subdued than Wrigley messages for masticating Americans, the "Certainly not" ads have stepped up sales. They also exemplify a trend toward tailor-made world advertising that is summed up by McCann-Erickson's Brazil Manager Sergio Souza...
...company stationed in Manchuria. In the bad old days, his father was buried alive by the Japanese, his two brothers starved to death, and his mother hanged herself after being raped by a landlord. In the good new days, Lei Feng was always helping old ladies across streets, buying railway tickets for mothers who had lost theirs, rushing out to do volunteer work on dikes and canals, and digging with his fingers when his shovel broke. Lei Feng died last year in an accident but, fortunately for the propagandists, left behind a 200,000-word diary filled with such sentiments...
Heel-Dragging. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 2-with only Texas Republican John Tower and Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse voting against it. Morse, although long known as one of labor's most vociferous champions, denounced the railway unions in a scathing Senate speech. Cried he: "I have never seen the kind of political lobby in operation that I have seen in recent days on the part of the railroad brotherhoods. [They] must take the full responsibility for the adoption of the first compulsory arbitration law in the history of Congress. The carriers have...
...passing its first compulsory arbitration bill, the Congress may have done nothing more than delay the day of reckoning. There is nothing in the railway unions' record to indicate that they will reach a negotiated settlement on the issues that are not to be arbitrated. That being the case, the U.S. may again be confronted by a ruinous rail strike in six months-during a presidential election year, when passions run high and reasonable solutions are even more difficult to achieve...
...last year's surplus, perhaps to turn it into industrial alcohol. But Paris does not want to spend the money, and is treaty-bound to buy all the wine that independent Algeria can produce. Angered, the French farmers have sabotaged phone and power lines, blocked railway signals, barricaded the highways. When the new wine starts coming in, Southern France is likely to be in pandemonium...