Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such is early mathematics, Communist style. By contrast, the South Vietnamese government takes the conventional approach. Sample problem from a government textbook for children of a comparable age: "Mother came back from the market. She gave Hai two oranges, gave Ba three and saved five for Daddy. How many oranges did she have...
...blessings of privacy, you understand, are not limited to protection from the public; they protect one from one's relatives as well. As it happens, I ascribe much of the success of my own three marriages (that's not many at my age I happen to be 68) to the luxury of plenty of elbow room. Association is more pleasant the more voluntary it is. A man feels the absolute need to get away from time to time to his own room, to his own wing, to his own little hideaway in the country or pied-a-terre in town...
...vote that cigarette ads be altogether banned from radio and TV. The Commission specifically objected to ads that equate smoking with good times, and noted that in January alone, viewers between twelve and 17 were exposed to a total of 60 cigarette commercials, mainly on such favorite teen-age shows as the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Wednesday Night Movie...
...life: the real dove that turns into a bottle of Dove liquid soap, the Ultra Brite girl who brands strangers with long-distance kisses. There is also an element of "I can do anything you can do" worse. Thus when Aerowax ricochets machine-gun bullets off its "jet-age plastic," another brand looses a stampede of elephants to trample over its "protective shield." The surrealistic approach often has a certain childish charm at first, but with repetition it quickly palls...
...nylon tip. Among the doctors: North President Don Nathanson, Creative Director Alice Westbrook, Copy Chief Bob Natkin and Copywriters Steve Lehner and Ken Hutchison. The dialogue, somewhat condensed: Natkin: We have what I think must be the first graffiti advertising campaign, which we've been running in teen-age magazines. The reason I bring this up is that it could be translated into TV and could be very arresting...