Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clergymen from the Boston area who say they are "troubled, concerned, and confused" about the war in Vietnam have formed an ad hoc committee to provide background information to clergymen on the war in Vietnam. The committee hopes to serve as a stimulus for action to help...
...said that although the ad hoc committee would be an affiliate of the National Emergency Clergy Committee, its members would reserve the right to "speak in their own way in their own community." Both Mumma and Fray emphasized the fact that each member of the committee speaks only for himself, not for the organization or faith to which he belongs...
...sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly humorous public notice in the Weekly Eagle, he dressed down hunters who were invading his property: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels...
...campaign, the candidates almost had an issue. Lehman's name appeared on a newspaper advertisement supporting Johnson's policy in Viet Nam while Kupferman said that the U.S. should get out of Viet Nam "as soon as possible." Lehman withdrew his name from a second pro-Johnson ad. Kupferman explained hastily that it would be "unthinkable" for the U.S. to dishonor its commitment. Each accused the other of "flipflopping" as they came out shoulder to shoulder in favor of continuing the war and all-out efforts to seek peace. In 1964 Lindsay got 71.5% of the vote...
Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter and His Model, by Marc Chagall, he flatly refused to handle it as a poster for the Chagall exhibition at the Kunsthaus Center. Unless Kunsthaus Director Eylert Spars would let him paste a paper ribbon across the model's breasts. Spars sighed, and instead of posting his 800 posters...