Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black tie or glitter funk," a dress code broad enough to bring put Pop Artist Andy Warhol ("I just wanted to see Ann-Margret"), Marion Javits, wife of Senator Jacob Javits, Actor Anthony Perkins and a sampling of transvestites, tuxedoed Hollywood agents and blue-jeaned rock freaks. The glitter blitz blared until 2 a.m., leaving Columbia Pictures with a bill of some $35,000 for food, flowers and guards. The whole spectacle was unsettling to Tommy Composer and Who Guitarist Pete Townshend, who stood by a turnstile surveying his new underground following. Said he apprehensively: "I just hope none...
...There is no way we can lose," Mrs. Sullivan declares optimistically. "How can they talk about bicycles and medicine cabinets and pins being dangerous, and not bullets?" She has some strong support. Free of charge, the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency is preparing a public relations blitz. Television spots, bumper stickers and posters feature the slogan YOU NEED A BULLET
...city's antimachine Democrats and in 1972 headed the rebellious group that unseated Daley's delegates at the Democratic National Convention. In his campaign for mayor, Singer has put together a surprisingly strong grass-roots organization. He raised more than $600,000 and launched a TV advertising blitz. Singer has also scored points with voters by blaming Daley for the flight of industry that cost the city more than 200,000 jobs between 1960 and 1970; a 12% rise in serious crime in the first ten months of 1974; and the deterioration of the city...
...should be misled by the President's flying circus and media blitz into believing that all his solutions are what is best for this nation. We will put his theories to the test before the toughest of juries-the American people-before we write a law that affects the lives of them...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, 82, commander of the Royal Air Force fighter group that fought off the German blitz on London in the summer of 1940; in Auckland, New Zealand. After the Battle of Britain, Park successfully defended Malta, then moved on to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where he commanded the Allied air forces...