Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (on Fridays). A Sleep of Prisoners, Christopher Fry's account of a fictional war and the inner turmoil of four wartime buddies from different social levels who are prisoners in a bombed-out church. Their captivity causes conflicts that lead to enmity. Starring Barry Morse, Paul Stevens, Ramon Bieri and Jon Voight...
...account, Bailey has an IQ of 170, though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and went into the Marine Corps as a jet fighter pilot did he find his vocation. Since lawyers are not required in most military trials, Bailey was able to become legal officer for 2,000 Marines at Cherry Point, N.C., and he tried more than 200 cases. With credit for his time in service...
This is a lot of fish to let get away. Catholics account for 24% of the U.S. population, buy far more than their share of the average 10.6 lbs. of fish per capita that Americans consume each year. University of Illinois Food Economist William F. Lomasney estimates that the new deal will result in a 10% drop in consumption, which could slice $200 million off the industry's $2 billion yearly retail sales. In heavily Catholic areas such as Boston and Baltimore, the cut could be deeper; when meatless Fridays ended in Canada two months ago, sales in Montreal...
...years ago, it has always seemed something of a one-man agency-the man being Cone. As the top copy disciplinarian, Cone constantly emphasized that an ad should be a clear, simple "substitute for talking to someone." He shunned both whimsy and the knuckle-hard TV sell. As an account man, his ability to hold on to such maverick clients as Hallmark Cards' Joyce Hall became legendary. Publicly, Cone emerged as the most respected scold of the industry. He once scourged the "tasteless people" in advertising as the "miserable, crawly two or three per cent who represent the advertising...
Among those who left was James Silver, chairman of the History department and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, an account of Mississippi's well-oiled system for stifling dissent. Although Silver was not actually fired, Governor Ross Barnett and the Board of Trustees were openly hostile to him. After the departure of Silver and some other faculty liberals, Ole Miss Chancellor J.D. Williams commented, "It's best that they go--it is best for them, it is best...