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...advertising agencies of some size and stature. The backbone of the business consists of the 42 major agencies that have billings* of more than $25 million a year. These are the agencies that create the ads for the nation's major corporations and that, consciously or unconsciously, people refer to when they speak of "Madison Avenue...
Burke admits that the Employment Office will also refer jobs to the HSA agency. Thus, if enough such jobs are referred to the agency, all students desiring employment will be forced to use it and pay its fee. In fact, this result may well be inevitable, since Employment Director Burke is also the general manager...
...Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences. In his inaugural speech he declared that public education in the state "must be kept segregated at all costs." That was one political promise he really meant to live...
Scrap Production. When Britain put up its Lightning jet against the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter in 1959, Bonn chose the U.S. plane in a $780 million deal. Incensed, the British began grumbling that the plane would quickly be outdated, now refer to the project as "organized scrap production." Just two months ago, they were jolted once more when Bonn chose America's Sergeant missile over Britain's Blue Water model. Out the window went $100 million and 2,000 jobs. "A lamentable mockery of the principle of interdependence in NATO," cried Tory M.P. Stephen Hastings, whose constituency includes...
...around so much from month to month that it is usually hard to tell whether an upsurge means the end of a slide or just a bump on the road. This uncertainty is compounded by the fact that some indicators are compiled weekly, some monthly, some quarterly. Thus they refer to different time periods and, to make their message even more confusing, are often subject to revision after they come out. Geoffrey Moore, of Manhattan's private and prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research-which first formulated the leading indicator system-points out that they are useful for calling...