Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyeball to Eyeball. Ally's returning ads partly spoof those for Avis by Doyle Dane, partly press Hertz prowess. One television commercial, for instance, shows a "We try harder" balloon deflating slowly while a voice ticks off Hertz's advantages in available cars, widespread locations and electronic reservation service. Another agrees that Avis' "only No. 2" claim is "hard to argue with." Ally, a teaching fellow in English at the University of Michigan before he turned to ad writing, proudly produced another that asks: "No. 2 says he tries harder. Than...
...music hall, he has to store his scenery in a tent pitched outside the auditorium, holds rehearsals in churches, hotel ballrooms and warehouses scattered all over town. Operagoers filing into the lobby of the music hall last week were confronted with life-size cutouts of opera officials with balloon captions, one showing the pigeon girls pleading "Even Shreveport has an opera house. Why not Dallas...
...Democrats sent up as a trial balloon, a charge that Anderson had ordered concrete to be poured in freezing weather. This reportedly resulted in substandard construction of a stretch of Highway 35, which he wanted finished before election time. The governor's loud and righteous denials turned the accusation into the campaign's biggest issue and led to his defeat...
...coming to an end," De Gaulle wistfully mused within earshot of a local mayor at a luncheon. Indeed it had to, for the President of France had one final bit of sightseeing on his agenda: witnessing the explosion of a French nuclear device hung from a balloon over the French test site at Mururoa. If the prevailing winds were right, De Gaulle at week's end hoped to end his tour with a bang before setting off for Guadeloupe and home...
Died. Nicholas Piantanida, 33, U.S. parachutist, who tried last May to make a free-fall jump from 125,000 ft., was injured when his oxygen system failed during the balloon ascent 57,000 ft. above Minnesota and emergency efforts to get him down did not prevent 31 minutes of oxygen starvation, causing brain damage and a coma from which he never awakened; of cardiorespiratory failure; in Philadelphia...