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...Coated Pill. In Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Charles Van Wie attached flowerpots and clinging vines to the parking meters in front of his curio store, explained that he wanted to make his customers happier as they put their nickels...
...forget to mention that I presided in Foley's absence." The card read, HYMAN PILL, vice-mayor...
...liable to punishment. At the time of the peace treaty, another plebiscite will decide whether the Saarlanders want to keep their "European" status. Erich Ollenhauer, leader of the Socialist opposition, flatly opposed the terms. Adenauer's own coalition leaders argued bitterly for an hour, but finally swallowed the pill. Mendès-France had won his concessions...
Furthermore, says Schwerin, "TV is not an advantageous medium for every type of product ... It is easy to show that a shoe polish will shine shoes, but how can you show that a pill will give relief?" Many a TV ad fails, says he, because admen are "college men ... not in rapport with the people they are communicating...
Those happy-go-lucky anti-blues pills, Meratran [TIME, June 28], will set civilization back a thousand years. No more worried people, no unhappy love affairs, no discontented workers. Have a pill, friend! No war, no peace talks, no useless trips to the doctor, no kicking the dog around and no teeth knocked out. If this is a preview of heaven, count me out . . . The Creator was wise in creating the discontented human species . . . Under this pill system, people will shoot themselves just for the hell...