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...would like to propose a deal to you and your like-minded colleagues in the Harvard Administration. If the undergraduates agree to respect the personal freedom of travelling salesmen making a Harvard pitch, is it remotely possible that you might respect the depth of concern which leads intelligent and conscientious students to protest a course of policy probably unsurpassed in our history for folly and futility? Arthur Schlesinger...
...wink, one of them is gone. Swallowed. A single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements-"walking the dog," "loop the loops" and a dazzling number called "the universe...
...unwelcome guest practicing free speech. Unfortunately our problem now is not one of maintaining free speech but of establishing free communication. This difference, between the hideous procedural "free speech" of Naked Lunch style con-men (do I describe the deans as well the Dowists?) recruiting researchers and salesmen for the adhesive medicine that burns whole bodies, families, and countries, and the apophantic, the real, I-thou, perhaps loving communication between brave persons, largely absent in Cambridge, Mass. as in most places I've seen, perhaps therefore a difference unrecognized by those who know one part only, this difference divides administration...
...result, the SEC predicts, stockbrokers' total revenues will rise from about $4 billion in 1966 to $4.5 billion this year. The SEC figures that income from commissions on security transactions should come to $2.7 billion, and profit to be divided on that income between partners, brokers and salesmen should reach $675 million, compared with $600 million in 1966. Moreover, with stock trading hitting a furious pace, SEC analysts expect a sharp rebound in the industry's aftertax profits on its main business of securities trading, which slipped from 5.8% in 1965 to 5.7% last year, according...
...with-the-Joneses types, full-sized cars did the best. Big Impalas, Biscaynes and Caprices topped Chevrolet's sales. Pontiac is selling twice as many big models as smaller Tempests and Firebirds. Full-sized Oldsmobiles sold twice as fast as intermediate F-85s. One of the best salesmen was G.M.'s first Ne gro dealer, Albert W. Johnson, 46, of Chicago.* A former St. Louis hospital administrator with a yen for selling, he wrote G.M. Boss James Roche about a franchise last year, got it on Oct. 1 and wrote orders for 40 Oldsmobiles in his first week...