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...Democrat Joseph Minish, 68, a liberal who had served 22 years in the House. Still, redistricting probably had more to do with winning the seat for Republican Dean Gallo, 48, minority leader of the New Jersey assembly. There was an unexpected Republican victory in Connecticut, where State Senator John Rowland, 27, knocked off Democrat William Ratchford, 50, a three-term incumbent. Reagan had appeared in the state to plug Rowland, who warmly embraced his policies. "We came out of nowhere," acknowledged a Rowland aide, giving Reagan all the credit...
Sears talked to farmers in simple and earthy language that sometimes stretched reality. In 1902 the Seven Drawer Drop Head Minnesota Sewing Machine was described as "the highest of high grade in everything." Couches and sofa beds were the "greatest values the world has ever seen." Dr. Rowland's System Builder and Lung Restorer was described as the "greatest vegetable medicine of the age for the thousand ailments common to the masses." Some copy was thorough to a fault...
...words for big-money journalists. Washington writers can "match their newspaper salaries by delivering one lecture a month .. . Should media 'stars' take fat lecture fees-while the media continually criticize members of Congress for the size and frequency of the honoraria they receive for making speeches?" Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Bailey points out, "sponsor a semiannual Washington seminar for businessmen, who pay several hundred dollars each to spend a day Listening to high Government officials and political leaders." How obligated, Bailey asks, are Evans and Novak to officials who help them make money...
...next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give her 21 hours of flying for the 2,556-mile first leg from Lae, New Guinea, to Rowland Island in mid-Pacific, which allows "not much reserve...
Indeed, when Microsoft (1982 sales: $34 million), the Bellevue, Wash., company that developed the operating system used on the IBM personal computer, wanted someone to run its marketing program, it looked to the cosmetics industry. Last month Microsoft hired Rowland Hanson, vice president of Neutrogena, a maker of skin-care products, as head of marketing and public relations. Admits Hanson: "When I came here I didn't even know how to turn a computer on." But he does know how to sell packaged goods. Says company President Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft...