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According to Ansara, the group does not actively solicit its membership, but instead concentrates on building a "solid base of educated members." As he explains, "students usually start out on one issue. They think the war is bad, or poverty is bad. But once in SDS, there occurs this broadening of their perceptions and their commitments." Consistent with their emphasis on decision-making, they begin to ask "who runs things," while at the same time developing a commitment to "direct action" to solve specific problems...
...Call You. Though traditions in some countries forbid brokers to advertise or openly solicit customers, the U.S. firms have built a big clientele and aggressively hold onto it. A German broker seldom phones his customers-and charges them 20 pfennigs for each call when he does-but the U.S. brokers are always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide...
...White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
...achieved is by a united City Council that can induce the different factions in the community--the residents, the businesses, and M.I.T.--to join in a positive declaration, rather than simply to fight for their own survival. Once that is achieved, the City will be in a position to solicit the support of the governments and organizations of outlying communities...
...present the committees need about $10,000 a year to support their activities. Each committee--such as the Mental Hospitals Committee or the Book Exposure Program--has to solicit its own funds each year. The problem is, that they can't had enough sources of income, and various committees have been soliciting from the same sources...