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...lesson of Minnesota in the minds of many powerful figures in the Democratic Party is that no Democrat can compete with President Eisenhower on the middle ground of American politics. Therefore, they conclude the party must revert to its radical tradition and pick somebody who will wage a slashing attack on the Republicans from the left, even if this alienates the Democrats in the South...
Miss Rand again left the Howard Athenaeum in 1941 to entertain the Freshmen. She greeted them with a fine assortment of shady stories, but turned a deaf ear when the Yardlings implored her to revert to type. Some of the more impatient stripped to the waist to give Sally the idea...
...commission is not all profit, but covers the costs of preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale fee-splitting. Every man in a grey flannel suit knows that no modern ad agency competes on price, but on quality of service and results...
...cooperative relations with the Western nations. [But] they are not yet ready to create the indispensable conditions for a secure peace . . . They have seriously set back the confidence that the free world can justifiably place on Soviet promises . . . However, it does seem that they do not want to revert to their earlier reliance on threats and invective. In that respect the spirit of Geneva still survives...
...keeping this a man's college," the Masters said little at the time about the reasons for cutting out early afternoon hours. If they were not talking about parietal rules in public, however, they were planning secretly among themselves to invalidate the new 11 p.m. Saturday curfew and revert to the 8 o'clock rule on all fall football weekends--the very time when students most wanted late hours...