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Paul Solman, the Boston organizer for the Davis petitioners and an editor of Boston After Dark, described the three letters as part of an "all-out blitz" on the part of the university to persuade alumni to vote against Davis. Bo Burlingham, a BAD colleague of Solman, accused the BUAA Nominating Committee of 'running scared" in his BAD column, "Bottom of the News" on April...
Boycott Cheese. The SST supporters have deluged Congress and potential backers elsewhere with a mail blitz of 400,000 pieces of literature. In smooth prose, they seek to rebut each criticism of the plane and to stress its economic benefits. One broadside claims that "one SST sold overseas will offset the import of 20,000 Volkswagens or 200,000 Japanese TV sets...
Cigarette foes hope that recent increases in sales will prove to be only the temporary effect of a last-minute TV ad blitz and the flurry of new brands introduced by the industry while commercials were still legal. Dr. Daniel Horn, head of the Government's National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, predicts that the broadcast ban will reduce smoking by two major groups: teen-agers and the five to ten million adults who, he reckons, are really trying to quit smoking. About one-third of the would-be quitters interviewed by Horn's group reported that they...
...boring meetings. He relaxes aboard a yet unchristened 23-ft. sailboat with a dinghy named Neutron. But he usually puts in two hours of early morning reading at his home in nearby Watertown before cooking breakfast for his family and churning off to the M.I.T. campus for his daily blitz of telephone calls and meetings. His abiding interest in education has led him to campaign successfully for election to the Watertown school board...
...just as the detective was saying "The person we want for murder is . . ." Parliament debated, and the Queen took afternoon tea, by candlelight. Millions of homes were without heat, electricity or hot water for long periods, and whole areas of London resembled the capital during the wartime blitz. Darkness and gloom had descended on Britain because 125,000 Electrical Trades Union (E.T.U.) workers had decided to stage a slowdown. It was so effective that at any given moment during the week a quarter of Britain was without electricity...