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...strapping (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Alf Robens turned out to be the cleverest capitalist the British Labor Party ever produced. Recognizing that the Coal Board's marketing tactics were woefully weak, he opened a string of showrooms up and down the country to woo homeowners into using more coal for heating, and sent a staff of 200 technicians out to talk British industrialists into burning coal in their plants...
Mutual Aid. The bank's new direction was set by current Chairman S. H. (for Sieng Heng) Ho, 62. Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals...
...obviously believed that whatever he did. in case of real need the U.S. would have to help India anyway. Meanwhile, as he saw it. the object of his foreign policy was to prevent the two great Asian powers -Russia and China-from combining against India. In his effort to woo both, acerbic Krishna Menon, says one Western diplomat, "was worth the weight of four or five ordinary men. He was so obnoxious to the West that, almost alone, he could demonstrate the sincerity of India's neutrality to the Russians...
Moreover, each College's staff wanted to have as many applications as possible. The attempt to woo touring freshmen, Foord recalls, "had almost the flavor of a rushing program for fraternities. But the staff's effort was probably worthwhile, since Masters found it difficult to run Colleges containing students who didn't want to be there. (About 60 per cent of each freshman class went where it wanted to go; the same figure applies to Harvard today.) Foord says the advantages of the preference system seemed even smaller when the Masters gave a moment of consideration to the students' reasons...
Moreover, each College's staff wanted to have as many applications as possible. The attempt to woo touring freshmen, Foord recalls, "had almost the flavor of a rushing program for fraternities. But the staff's effort was probably worthwhile, since Masters found it difficult to run Colleges containing students who didn't want to be there. (About 60 per cent of each freshman class went where it wanted to go; the same figure applies to Harvard today.) Foord says the advantages of the preference system seemed even smaller when the Masters gave a moment of consideration to the students' reasons...