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...family" of 15 or 20 people -- is trying to get the freshmen to take good trips," Calvert said. The letter is an effort to counter what its authors consider the detrimental statements issued by Monro and the UHS which Calvert believes "affect the quality of the trip," and tend to send the users to mental hospitals...
...movement has spawned some dozen magazines and newspapers, including the sensationalist Ramparts and the more intellectual Studies on the Left. The lesser publications appear erratically, when the editors happen to have the money, and tend to be studded by advertisements for psychedelic happenings and underground movies and interviews with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists...
Shiny New Apple. Like a good glass of 3.2 beer, popular chronicles of the '30s tend to repeat themselves, and this "highly selective history," combined with personal reminiscences, is no exception. Still, Author Bendiner (White House Fever, Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill) offers a book as tempting as a shiny new apple, because his account is not oversentimental...
Having thus sidestepped the particular problems of conglomerates, Douglas proceeded to spell out his agreement with the FTC charge that the merger "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in the production and sale of household liquid bleaches." P. & G., he noted, was the nation's leading sales promoter in 1957 -and it still is, spending $245 million on advertising and promotion annually. When it bought Clorox, it was latching onto the leading producer of bleach, which controlled 48.8% of the market...
THERE ARE groups in Washington, however, whose interests tend to coincide with those of the press. For instance, most Congressmen feel that a sympathetic press is essential to their reelection, and often court reporters by giving them leads and un attributed statements. The foreign embassies are equally a good source of news, because reporters are able to exchange stories with Ambassadors who want to know what is really being said about DeGaulle in Washington. Reporters are also used to convey warnings to foreign governments which would be difficult to include in a diplomatic dispatch. When, for example, the U.S. wanted...