Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia 76ers are paying 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain $250,000 to play professional basketball this winter, and nobody can say that he hasn't gone all out to earn this record sum. Wilt, for instance, thought up a new basketball strategy called reductio ad absurdum. In seven seasons with the San Francisco Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers, Chamberlain averaged 39.6 points a game, and even got as high as 100 points in one game-yet his teams never won a championship. Last year, he was persuaded to shoot less and enjoy it more as a playmaker and rebound...
...could dispute it? Hoofer Hope seemed to be going nowhere. At one desperate point, he took an ad in Variety: LES HOPE AVAILABLE. SONGS...
Magazines published by tax-free organizations may not make profits, but some of those that take advertising certainly make money. By the end of the year, the Journal of the American Medical Association will have sold some $12 million worth of ads; the National Geographic will have taken in an estimated $8.6 million in advertising revenue; Nation's Business, published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, should earn $4,000,000 from ads; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science will probably have ad revenues of $2.2 million. For years, taxpaying competitors of these...
...Anguilla is roaring like the mouse of fiction and screen," the editorial declared, going on to counsel the Anguillians to give up their foolishness and return to the three-island nation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla spelled out for them by Great Britain on the eve of decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund, Chase Manhattan Bank...
When Roger Fisher got wind of the ad's existence not long before page 25 of the Aug. 14 Times was scheduled to lock up, he tried to check it out. "I said, 'Hold the ad up until I can look at it,' and they [the San Francisco group which wrote and paid for the ad] thought I was working for the CIA in some connection, as a special agent," Fisher recalls...