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...exhibit was the highlight of an eight-day international cultural congress that ended in Havana last week. Though the congress was a flop as such affairs go-only a few of the big names invited showed up*-it was part of an old Castro strategy: when things go sour, divert the people's minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: A Time for Diversion | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Long-Term View From the 29th Floor | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...believes Cornell's hockey team is nine goals better than Harvard's, nor that the Crimson can't compete with an all-Canadian squad, but many have been sucking sour grapes for some time over Big Red Coach Ned Harkness's recruiting tactics. Probably prompted by this discontent, the ECAC last week adopted a rule previously in effect for NCAA championships: any foreigner attending college here loses a year of varsity eligibility for each year he has competed in his own country over...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 12/20/1967 | See Source »

...world's second-largest ad agency after J. Walter Thompson. Complete service to clients - in principle, even to competing clients - could be rendered within the group's enterprises, with platoons of talent shifted around to cater to specific needs. It was a grand plan, but it went sour. In recent weeks Interpublic has undergone a major overhaul. More than 500 of some 8,000 employees have been dismissed. Harper, at 51, has been eased up to the chairmanship, and active command has been taken over by silver-haired Robert Healy, 63, a former McCann-Erickson chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Ax at Interpublic | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...grapevine is a powerful medium for the exchanging of student ideas and the forming of student opinions. The grapevine has been running sour toward business in three major areas: recruiting, summer training and jobs, and actual training programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WE ARE UNIMPRESSED BY RECRUITERS, SOURED BY USELESS SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAMS..." | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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