Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such harassing fire, the restless reaction of a hair-trigger combat commander caught in the paper and politics of the peacetime Pentagon, tends to obscure the best of his book and the special brand of Army "wild blue yonder" that is the best of Jim Gavin. After a hard-eyed assessment of a U.S. Army that could be stopped by the "primitive" Red Chinese in Korea, he makes a passionate demand for the money and decisions to provide the West with an atom-armed and airmobile fighting force that can hold down Communist threats, big and little, by being ready...
...Recent publicity has been scarce, and saucer sightings few, and the widely printed stories about Jung's belief were just what was needed for another round of "visitors from space." When Director Lorenzen was called last week, she did not answer her telephone. She was happily investigating a brand-new saucer sighting...
Rothmans was so bluntly frank because it is trying to plug its own filter brand (called Rothmans) at the expense of the industry. The company is struggling to win a major market in Canada, and Supersalesman O'Neil-Dunne, speaking in Toronto, claimed that Rothmans' king-size filter brand yielded 14.4% to 38.7% less tars than the four other bestselling Canadian filters. Furthermore, "an increasing section of scientific opinion believes that if the tar intake from a single cigarette were reduced to 18 milligrams,† there would be a significant reduction in the risk of lung cancer...
...present 870 or so, though the chamber seats only about 250: after all, fewer than a hundred regularly show up, and some Lords never have. Last week, after her ministers agreed on possible candidates, Queen Elizabeth named ten new male life peers and four women. The peeresses, who, with brand new titles, will take their seats in November...
...About a brand of special knowledge