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...opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
Family firms often woo and motivate able executives by holding out generous profit sharing, and quite a few have found excellent managers among the men who had the good sense to marry the bosses' daughters. There are also valuable imponderables. "We have a consistent record of good growth," says Mennen Co. President George Mennen, "and family pride has something to do with it. After all, the products carry our name." Another factor that helps to produce good results is the feeling of tradition, purpose and loyalty that pervades family-owned firms. These are attributes that big manager-run companies...
...Miller should know. Initially, he had envisioned a month of talking to G.O.P. groups, binding up the post-convention wounds as only a former G.O.P. National Committee chairman with acquaintances throughout the party could do. Then an all-out campaign to woo independent and Democratic votes, backed up with a heavy nationwide TV coverage. Instead, Miller found himself on a weary treadmill, trying to explain the various positions taken by his standardbearer...
Percy has the same problem among non-Negro immigrant laborers. He has no bargaining power with which to woo these Democratic blocs. And Rep. Miller apparently blunted the "backlash" effect when he alienated every ethnic group in the Chicago area by demanding more restrictive immigration laws in a speech in nearby Gary, Ind. (Apparently he thought the O'Haras, Grabowskis, and Alfinis wanted their jobs protected against both Negroes and immigrants...
...candidate also has the golden knack of making a five or six second conversation seem like a five or six minute heartwarming chat. His watchful eye and instant charm combine to woo that special type of person who might actually be swayed by the flattery of special attention. He will pass up a stream of people gushing from a crowded bus and go twenty or thirty feet away to shake hands and have a few words with some lonely figure watching him shyly from afar...