Word: talismans
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...sailor and a Southerner (Southerners used to be hilarious); and Jim Hutton. a missile scientist (scientists never were very funny, but Hutton is also a man in love, and thus hilarious). The three of them decide to become wealthy at a Venice casino, using as their good-luck talisman a ship-based, missile-tracking electronic computer named...
...Talisman, Copaken, and their board of directors (roommates and friends) now plan additional lines of cocktail and Christmas cards...
While the Veritas Committee worries about the evil effects of Keynesian economics upon undergraduates, a group of sophomores have given the capitalist tradition an invigorating shot in the arm. A greeting card company founded by Richard D. Copaken '63 and Mark E. Talisman '63 has met with such success that major firms are being forced to imitate their line...
...sophomores evolved an idea last September that many in the industry regard as the first innovation in greeting cards since the nebbish. Balancing lights on stacks of books, using a table top as a studio and a windowshade as a backdrop, Talisman photographed a group of models sculpted by his partner. They then capitalized on the University's geographical distribution in lining up eighty ingenious undergraduates to promote the cards across the country over the Christmas vacation...
Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...