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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 16, the City police would use the vagrancy laws against hippies. All those who could not provide evidence of their means of support would have to move out of the City or face a fine or jail term. Opponents of the City's war have formed an Ad Hoc Committee to Oppose Extreme Ignorance which accuses May or Daniel J. Hayes Jr. of waging an "insane fascist persecution" to further his chances for re-election. They also charge that Hayes is trying to close the office of an anti-war group located in the same block as the Avatar...
There was even a freelance effort by California Clothier Harry Roth, who spent $7,800 on a New York Times ad urging Johnson not to seek renomination because "there is no possible way" for him to end the Viet...
...medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging too little or everyone else is charging too much...
Airline Thefts. At least one of Wells, Rich, Greene's ideas has already boomeranged. In her dealings with Braniff, Mary Wells persuaded the airline to paint its jets in pastel hues and garb its stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms. But a Wells ad showing an elderly woman passenger stealing everything from a Braniff blanket to the plane itself has had the unintended effect of dramatically increasing the line's theft rate. No matter how the American Motors campaign goes over, however, there are hopes that some of the company's cars will sell well. Based on optimism...
Also taking a few swipes at the Big Three is Sweden's Volvo, the third largest auto importer (after Volkswagen and Opel), whose upcoming ad campaign is being handled by an even newer agency, Manhattan's Scali, McCabe, Sieves, Inc. To push Volvo, its only commercial account (approximate billing: $3,500,000), the ambitious, five-month-old agency is carrying on a Volkswagen-style campaign extolling Volvo's durability, high gas mileage, out-of-the-past lines and resistance to annual model changeovers. One Volvo ad pictures an all-paper car, which is pointedly described...