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...year hitch makes good sense in the Peace Corps, which needs to train volunteers intensively for sensitive missions in alien cultures. But a long enlistment period is not as necessary for VISTA. The cultural conditions of American poverty are not so unfamiliar as those of Nigeria or Peru. Assuming that he were given less responsible jobs than regular volunteers, a part-time VISTA worker, contributing 10 or 15 hours a week to a local project, could be prepared to do constructive tasks in a matter of days...
...implicit danger of banality. He has reopened the question of whether or not artists-after 50 years of peering into the unconscious mind-can again approach the everyday world of facts, events, objects and images, rip them from their common contexts and give the familiar an unfamiliar beauty...
...believes in pouring in ad money disproportionately to sales until a new product gets to the point, as a P. & G. executive puts it, where "it brings home the duck to dinner." The success of this formula makes P. & G. confident that the unfamiliar products it is test-marketing today-Velvet Skin soap, Top Job liquid cleanser and The Max blue detergent tablet-will also become household words tomorrow, thanks to the power of advertising...
...complex clearinghouse that handles Brazil's coffee dealings. A recent official investigation uncovered a string of "irregularities" in I.B.C.'s hiring practices, promotional spending and coffee purchasing. The new president, appointed when the revolutionary government took over, is Leonidas Lopes Borio, 41, a civil engineer who is unfamiliar with coffee marketing...
Judy Collins, 25, is neither a novice at her art nor as unfamiliar as some of her contemporaries with the sensation of distress. The folk circuit, her "road to communicate," is a lifetime's journey from the days when she performed as a piano soloist with the Denver Businessmen's Symphony. Seattle-born and Denver-bred, she was influenced by her blind father, who emceed a local radio show ("a potpourri of philosophy, piano and good music," she recalls...