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...disgusted to read TIME'S description of the slow-fire pistol shoot as an "event that only a Mafia button man could love." The millions of Americans and people abroad who like pistol and/or rifle matches are certainly not Mafia button...
Hogan's dark brown suit still held its press, and his blue and white stripped button down shirt was unwrinkled. He complained briefly about the rain, but seemed satisfied with the efforts that he and his campaign staff made during the year in which he had been an active candidate for the seat...
...SECRETARY in a mail-order house slips pages of its newest catalogue into a duplicating machine hooked up to a specially programmed computer and presses a button. Within seconds, copies begin popping out of inexpensively rented duplicating machines in homes round the nation-with the U.S. Postal Service never getting involved. That will not happen next week or next year, but office-equipment experts insist that it is a serious prospect circa 1980. Indeed it is only one of the intriguing possibilities that they see resulting from the inevitable next step in office technology: a marriage of the computer...
...bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth, who ran a souvenir booth in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel last week. Two exceptions: button sellers did a brisk business, and some delicatessens did well during the Democratic gathering. "You would be surprised how many Democrats came in to buy bread and cold cuts to take to their rooms," says one counterman...
Molloy has already had plenty of takers. At his suggestion, the owner of an insurance agency in a Boston suburb replaced his flashily attired sales force with men in gray suits, simple ties and button-down collars-and sales boomed. A trial lawyer with a folksy courtroom manner and a losing record was persuaded to abandon his pinstripe suits and wire-rimmed spectacles (which were more suitable for a remote "authority figure") in favor of solid blue suits and glasses with thicker frames that gave him a friendlier image. He is now winning more cases...