Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When a TIME reporter teasingly called his attention to oil spouting from an engine, the candidate's eyes popped. After peering at it intently, he explained that this was the kind of engine that leaks oil normally, then lit one of the cigars he smokes incessantly, but whose brand he cannot name...
Violence, Rap Brown observed, "is as American as cherry pie." History that most whites would rather forget supports him. Quite aside from the Ku Klux Klan's brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine...
...going to avoid mushiness, but let it go on record now that John Yovicsin, even if the rest of the season doesn't work out for the very best, has performed his own brand of minor miracle. Setting on Lalich from the start, maintaining his confidence even on those days when George seemed to be running scared, and refraining from pulling him out Saturday after a disasterous first period, Yovicsin may have found the quarterback to replace Ric Zimmerman...
...account for 42% of a market that last year consumed 527.8 billion cigarettes. And the "swinging woman of the '60s," to whom the company is pitching its Slims, apparently likes the idea of a cigarette of her own. Test-marketed in the San Francisco Bay area, the new brand rapidly gathered 1½% of all sales; additional cartons had to be shipped in by air. Since 1% is considered a good share of the market for any brand, Philip Morris decided to skip the two more months of planned testing and go with Virginia Slims nationally...
...delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level of department-store-modern respectability...