Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Williams, a pole vaulter on the varsity track team, won the University Handicap race along the Charles yesterday afternoon. Running with a five minute handicap, Williams defeated Phil Robertson, a sophomore hurdler, by about five yards...
...last year abandoned Norman, Craig & Kummel, badly rocking the agency (1956 billings: $25.8 .million). Before he shifted completely to BBDO, fourth-biggest agency (1956 billings: $194.5 million), Revson took the precaution of siphoning off part of his business to three smaller firms. But the big problems flowed into BBDO along with Revson. The biggest was the fact that Client Revson demanded top-quality advertising and simply worked too hard for the admen to keep up. The weary admen began agreeing with Revson's bad ideas as well as his good ones in order to crawl home to the wife...
...None. If Sinclair and the other complainants refuse to go along with the cuts, they will wreck the plan. To date, the six other companies that had been importing heavily for years and whose base-period levels are high have agreed to abide by their quotas. The six (Atlantic, Gulf, Socony, Standard of California, Jersey Standard, Texas), which imported 573,800 bbl. a day in July, plan to cut to 471,000 bbl. by December, 22,000 below the Government's request. But last week they showed signs of weakening, nervously eyed the appeals for quota boosts. Gulf Executive...
...Mopetta, a tiny (only 3 ft. high) one-seater with three wheels, a plastic body, and a motor the size of a cabbage head, which sends it scuttling along at 30 m.p.h...
Maxim us or Optimus? In pages as crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third...