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They will hear an all-star lineup that includes Ruff, Casey, Economist Arthur Laffer, Metals Expert James Sinclair and Television Host Louis Rukeyser. Like rock concerts, the seminars can be phenomenally profitable for both the stars and the promoters. The impresario behind this weekend's gala is Charles E. Githler III, 24, who dropped out of college in 1976 to devote his full time to real estate speculation in Florida. Githler organized his first International Investors Forum in San Francisco three years ago, attracting 1,400 people at $450 each. The superstar of seminar promoters is James U. Blanchard...
...into a broad cultural thesis. Nearly all modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...
When writers paused for breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset...
Period 3: B.U., Marc Sinclair 1 (Fldler, Paul Fenton...
...Domestic Policy--here is where you win. Libertarians believe in the deregulation of business, worshipping the free market as a sort of God. Remind your opponent that before regulation of business, industry did not exactly serve as an enlightened force in society. Upton Sinclair had plenty to write about when he turned his attention on the meat-packing industry; immigrants tended to die in apartment fires. If they want to argue that the present system is somehow different or if they start talking about how consumers can band together and start class action suits, then turn to Clark...