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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ad revenue rose $3,700,000; abroad it grew by $2,100,000. That brought total revenues to $60.7 million, which represents a 10.5% jump over the same period last year...
Almost everyone now agrees that the welfare system is a mess, though few agree on what should be done. The Ad ministration is now preparing reforms of the welfare sys tem, and may eventually work toward abolishing it - re placing it with an evenhanded guaranteed annual wage or family allowance that would clearly help the lower middle class as well as the poor. White workers, however, would have to be persuaded that such an allowance did not represent simply another something-for-nothing scheme...
...accusation was leveled by Senator William Proxmire after Budge ad mitted that he had considered an offer to become president of the six mutual funds managed by Investors Diversified Services, the biggest company in the fund business. Budge eventually declined the $80,000-a-year bid, but only after pondering over it for more than two months. A Senate banking subcommittee has called on him to explain how he could justify negotiating for a job in an industry that the SEC regulates...
...gonna rock the boat," he promises. Then he proceeds to fire all the white men at the table and replaces them with soul brothers. "Rockin' the boat is a drag," the bearded man yells. "I'm gonna sink it. From now on, this ad agency is gonna be called the Truth and Soul Agency. That's right...
...prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside TV commercials. That seems to have been the idea, anyway, but only traces of it have survived Downey's scattershot direction. He spends most of his time on puerile parodies of TV commercials, like one with a comely adolescent hawking pimple...