Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brody said that an ad hoc committee of about ten people has been formed by the Council. It is asking for reports of housing discrimination and plans either to try and solve the specific problems informally itself or to refer them to the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination...
...given the snob appeal that foreign products enjoy in Japan, will make them closely competitive with Suntory. Preparing for that day, President Saji has launched a major advertising campaign, sponsoring such made-in-Hollywood TV shows as 77 Sunset Strip. The campaign sells prestige and national pride. One newspaper ad shows a Japanese man-of-distinction relaxing in his kimono and clutching a beaker of Old Suntory...
Peabody's do-good campaign alienated many Democratic professionals. But Volpe offended some voters by refusing to debate with Peabody, even though Peabody's ad-lib remarks frequently are confusing enough to prompt the crack: "He played football too long without a helmet...
...Modernists. More than any other dealer, Betty Parsons is credited with bringing abstract art to its present status. She opened in 1946 with about 13 artists, including the even then venerable Hans Hofmann and Ad Reinhardt. She gave one-man shows to Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. The public was either indifferent or hostile at first, but Betty Parsons got an unexpected boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa...
...Bunch of Individuals. For all its fast journalistic footwork, the News is undeniably Miami's second daily. The paper's circulation of 145,263, while steadily rising, is less than half that of Miami's dominant morning Herald (320,547). The News trails hopelessly in ad linage, 7,533,733 to the Herald's 21,376,317 (for the first half of 1962). It runs about 125 daily columns of news to the Herald's 200, musters an editorial staff of 100 to the Herald's 173. But such odds have only inspired...